News
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GAP’s growling deal
Friday | Jan 8 2010GAP Adventures is offering a $550 early booking discount on some of its cabins on the nine-day ‘Spitsbergen – The Realm of the Polar Bear’ cruise.
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JQ Asia expansion
Friday | Jan 8 2010JETSTAR Airways has begun placing its flight code on select services operated by Jetstar Asia from Singapore to Bangkok and Penang, in an extension of its codeshare agreement.
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IE dom commission
Friday | Jan 8 2010SOLOMON Airlines will offer agents 3% commission on domestic flight bookings from 01 Feb, not 5% as mentioned in TD yesterday.
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EK KK’s MEL/KUL
Friday | Jan 8 2010EMIRATES has confirmed it will be altering one of its thrice daily services between Melbourne- Dubai to operate via Malaysia from Feb, as exclusively revealed by TD earlier this week (TD 04 Jan).
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Accor appointment
Friday | Jan 8 2010CRAIG Wood has been appointed to the position of ceo for Accor Vacation Club (re-branded from Accor Premiere Vacation Club), with immediate effect.
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Clelia II in drydock
Friday | Jan 8 2010AUSTRALIA’S Orion Expedition Cruises was one of the first to be informed of the Clelia II incident in Antarctica which occured on Boxing Day (TD yesterday).
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Skroo: LCCs won’t survive
Friday | Jan 8 2010FLIGHT Centre Limited boss Graham ‘Skroo’ Turner says lowcost carriers (LCCs) will not survive in the Australian market if they don’t enlist the additional support from travel agents.
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Seabourn’s Quest
Friday | Jan 8 2010THE Yachts of Seabourn has announced it will name its latest ship Seabourn Quest, to debut from Jun 2011.
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What a response!
Friday | Jan 8 2010TRAVEL Daily was gobsmacked by the overwhelming number of entries in its exclusive Thai Airways International competiton to win a VIP double pass to attend the Australian Open, which featured in yesterday’s issue.
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Tanzanian Safari famil
Thursday | Jan 7 2010IN NOV last year, The Africa Safari Co. hosted some of its valued travel agents on an educational to Tanzania.