News
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easyJet chief quits
Tuesday | May 18 2010THE founder of UK-based lowcost carrier easyJet, Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, has resigned from the carrier’s board over a dispute about the planned growth of the airline’s fleet.
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Two Indian Stars?
Monday | May 17 2010JET Airways is in talks to join the Star Alliance airline network in the future, in addition to rival Indian carrier Air India.
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UK air back-lash
Monday | May 17 2010BRITISH Airways and Virgin Atlantic say plans for a new air tax charged on each aircraft, rather than per passenger (TD Fri), is “unworkable and could financially disadvantage Britain’s travel industry”.
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HA A330 early
Monday | May 17 2010HAWAIIAN Airlines has brought forward the entry into service of its new A330-200 aircraft, which will now debut on 04 Jun on flights from Honolulu to Los Angeles and Las Vegas according to agent GDS displays.
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MH boost for AKL
Monday | May 17 2010MALAYSIA Airlines has added a 5th weekly direct service between Kuala Lumpur and Auckland on Wed due to growing demand.
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Top prize for TD reader
Monday | May 17 2010Top Dog Developments has named Grant Palmer of budgetflights.com.au as the lucky winner of a $50,000 online travel system in the recent competition run exclusively in Travel Daily. See http://www.flickr.com/photos/traveldailyau/4614618225/
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BA strike action
Monday | May 17 2010BRITISH Airways will operate its scheduled flights between London Heathrow and Sydney over the next five days despite the planned strike action by the carrier’s LHR-based cabin crew.
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Britain-Brazil deal
Monday | May 17 2010VISITBRITAIN has signed a new agreement with Brazilian tourism promotion organisation EMBRATUR which aims to increase tourism between the two countries.
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Window Seat 17 May 10
Monday | May 17 2010A SKINNY-DIPPING tourist in New Zealand paid a high price recently after a venomous spider bit him on the penis.
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Plenty of Renaults
Monday | May 17 2010RENAULT Eurodrive says there’s no shortage of vehicles available for leasing in Europe over the upcoming peak period.