News
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SIA transatlantic
Monday | Dec 7 2009SINGAPORE Airlines is set to offer flights from London Heathrow to both New York JFK and Newark, via a codeshare with Virgin Atlantic.
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PAL back to BNE
Monday | Dec 7 2009PHILIPPINE Airlines will relaunch Brisbane services from 16 Mar when it begins a twice weekly tri-city operation on the Manila- Melbourne-Brisbane-Manila route on Thu and Fri’s.
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New Italy address
Monday | Dec 7 2009THE Italian Government Tourist Office has new email contact details because of a head office policy change to unify the email addresses of all overseas offices.
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Qatar launch MEL
Monday | Dec 7 2009QATAR Airways inaugurated services to Australia yesterday when its first commercial service arrived into Melbourne last night.
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Qantas continues to block First
Monday | Dec 7 2009QANTAS is continuing to hold back its First Class cabin offering on select network routes, giving Business Class passengers the chance to trial the product at no charge, as revealed by Travel Daily earlier this year (TD 25 May).
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Burgundy Snails anyone?
Monday | Dec 7 2009THE French Tourist Bureau will host its biannual French Workshop midnext year, with more than 1,500 agents expected to attend.
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Ethiopian into Star
Monday | Dec 7 2009AFRICAN carrier Ethiopian Airlines will join the Star Alliance next year according to a number of reports, with Lufthansa backing the carrier with which it operates codeshare flights from Frankfurt to Addis Ababa.
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TCF terminations
Monday | Dec 7 2009THE Travel Compensation Fund this morning announced the nonvoluntary termination of three travel agencies because they’ve failed to lodge their annual financial returns.
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SAA flips the bird
Monday | Dec 7 2009SOUTH African Airways has announced the extension of its Africa and European earlybird campaign until 18 Dec.
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QF A380 wheel fault
Monday | Dec 7 2009A QANTAS A380 flight operating between Singapore and London on Fri suffered a nose wheel steering failure when landing at Heathrow, resulting in the superjumbo being towed to the airport apron.