News
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Vale Craig Lee
Monday | Sep 27 2010THE travel industry is today mourning the death of Craig Lee, regional director Australia for Air Tahiti Nui, who died peacefully in Sydney yesterday after a battle with cancer.
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NZ chief pushes DJ pact
Monday | Sep 27 2010AIR New Zealand ceo Rob Fyfe has continued his rhetoric promoting the proposed NZ alliance with Virgin Blue, telling shareholders at the Air NZ agm on Fri that if the ACCC denies the deal it will “leave the dominant power of the Qantas-Jetstar bloc completely unchecked”.
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Window Seat 24 Sep 10
Friday | Sep 24 2010ABERCROMBIE & Kent came up with an unusual travel industry giveaway at last night’s Sydney launch of its 2011 brochure.
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bmi to launch Libya
Friday | Sep 24 2010BMI has announced a new daily London Heathrow-Tripoli service, with the A319 services set to commence from 01 Dec.
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More Timor flights
Friday | Sep 24 2010AIRNORTH has announced two additional weekly flights between Darwin and Dili.
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More agent fraud attempts
Friday | Sep 24 2010THE scammers who have already taken down one Australian travel agency (TD 06 Sep) are continuing their attempts to defraud the industry.
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Earlybirds out early
Friday | Sep 24 2010SINGAPORE Airlines has stolen a march on its rivals by this morning launching a range of very attractive 2011 earlybird airfares to Europe (TD breaking news).
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S7 oneworld in Nov
Friday | Sep 24 2010RUSSIAN carrier S7 will become a full member of the oneworld airline alliance on 15 Nov, completing an 18 month process of integration which commenced last year (TD 24 May 09).
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DJ/NZ Christmas hopes
Friday | Sep 24 2010THE Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is now set to deliver its final ruling on the proposed trans-Tasman alliance between Virgin Blue and Air New Zealand in late Dec.
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Disney set for big consumer campaign
Friday | Sep 24 2010TRAVEL agents should brush up on their knowledge of Tinkerbell, Mickey Mouse and The Little Mermaid, with Disney set to launch its first ever consumer advertising in Australia next year.