News
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Sign up for AFL
Wednesday | Mar 24 2010THE 2010 AFL season kicks off tomorrow, so we’re reminding the industry to sign up for this year’s Travel Daily AFL tipping comp.
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Uluru for agents
Wednesday | Mar 24 2010VOYAGES is offering special industry rates at its Ayers Rock properties in conjunction with the new Virgin Blue direct flights from Sydney.
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AW charters MS Volendam
Wednesday | Mar 24 2010ADVENTURE World has today announced a 20-night charter of Holland America’s MS Volendam from Oct 2011, and is offering cruise packages combined with finals tickets for next year’s Rugby World Cup in New Zealand.
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Wings score OETG/SQ prize
Wednesday | Mar 24 2010THE Orient Express Travel Group has presented its ‘Select’ agency, Wings Travel, with the major prize in last year’s OETG Express Ticketing promotion, in conjunction with Singapore Airlines. See http://www.flickr.com/photos/traveldailyau/4461466365/
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SpaceShipTwo flies
Tuesday | Mar 23 2010VIRGIN Galactic performed its inaugural captive carry flight of SpaceShipTwo over the Mojave Desert in the USA overnight.
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Skywest best OTP
Tuesday | Mar 23 2010WESTERN Australia’s Skywest Airlines has reported the best on time performance (OTP) across all domestically operated airlines in Feb 2010.
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TSAX Buenos Aires
Tuesday | Mar 23 2010TRAVELSCENE American Express owners and managers will head to South America later this year, with the announcement by gm Jacqui Timmins that the TSAX annual conference will be held in Buenos Aires on 21-22 Oct.
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A lovely Long Island weekend
Tuesday | Mar 23 2010Long Island Resort in the Whitsundays in conjunction with Cruise Whitsundays recently hosted 80 Queensland travel agents to experience its facilities after a soft refurbishment. See http://www.flickr.com/photos/traveldailyau/4458370247/
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Delta SYD-ATL
Tuesday | Mar 23 2010DELTA has reversed plans for a single flight number operation between Sydney and New York (TD 10 Mar), with GDS systems now showing DL016/17 operating as a single flight number and same aircraft service on the current Atlanta-Los Angeles-Sydney routing.
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Air NZ loads up
Tuesday | Mar 23 2010AIR New Zealand saw a 4.5 point improvement in its Group load factor during Feb, with passenger numbers up 3.1% to 997,000 for the month on a 7.9% reduction in capacity.