News
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US agents all aboard
Tuesday | Sep 28 2010DescaradA Luxury Charters hosted a cocktail evening at Hamilton Island for US wholesaler Swain Tours recently, to celebrate the achievements of a number of top performing US travel agents (see here).
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AMEX gets virtual
Tuesday | Sep 28 2010AMERICAN Express Business Travel (AEBT) has unveiled a “unique telepresence offering” to act as a central hub and aggregator of virtual meetings offerings.
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Southwest confirms AirTran buy
Tuesday | Sep 28 2010CONSOLIDATION of the US domestic aviation market is continuing with the announcement that low cost pioneer Southwest Airlines will purchase its smaller rival AirTran for about US$1.4 billion.
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Window Seat 28 Sep 10
Tuesday | Sep 28 2010QUEENSLAND premier Anna Bligh is neither for or against the new Gold Coast Bikini Race, which was announced this week by the Gold Coast Turf Club.
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TCF termination
Tuesday | Sep 28 2010THE Travel Compensation Fund has terminated the participation of Express Touring Pty Ltd in Pyrmont NSW due to it lacking sufficient financial resources.
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Free live2air on DJ
Tuesday | Sep 28 2010VIRGIN Blue yesterday offered all passengers on Boeing flights around the nation complimentary “live2air” inflight entertainment, in a move to apologise to those guests who were left stranded following Sun’s system crash.
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Italian Discovery
Tuesday | Sep 28 2010TEMPO Holidays will discount its Italian Discovery package by 15%, for bookings made by 15 Dec 2010 and travel 19 Mar-05 Nov 11.
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Travelport adds Sponsored Flights
Tuesday | Sep 28 2010GOOGLE can do it, so why can’t a GDS provider?
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Virgin Blue crash
Tuesday | Sep 28 2010VIRGIN Blue has confirmed that the massive outage of its reservations and check-in systems which reportedly disrupted more than 100,000 passengers (TD yesterday) was due to the failure of its “solid state disk server infrastructure” at about 8.00am on Sun morning.
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“Where Australia shines”
Tuesday | Sep 28 2010THE Queensland government has today launched Tourism Queensland’s new $4.16m tourism brand on the Gold Coast, “Queensland, Where Australia Shines” (TD breaking news).