News
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TAM into Star in May
Friday | Mar 19 2010BRAZILIAN carrier TAM will shift its operations from T4 to T1 at London Heathrow Airport this weekend, in the lead-up to joining the Star Alliance on 13 May.
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BA, IB deal closer
Friday | Mar 19 2010BRITISH Airways and Iberia have formally registered the name “International Airlines Group”, with Spanish newspapers reporting that their merger could be formally approved in board meetings to be held next week.
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Tick for Windsor
Friday | Mar 19 2010PLANNING approval has been granted by the Victorian government for the $260m redevelopment of Melbourne’s iconic Windsor Hotel.
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New Webjet app
Friday | Mar 19 2010ONLINE agency Webjet yesterday confirmed that it had completed the Apple procedures to allow its new iPhone application to be available via the iTunes store.
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Amadeus shows its vision
Friday | Mar 19 2010In the not too distant future travel agents in Australia could have the latest in cutting edge technology to showcase travel products around the globle on their countertop – literally. See http://www.flickr.com/photos/traveldailyau/4449826604/
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Branson goes wild in Victoria
Thursday | Mar 18 2010IT’S not often that you find a billionaire businessman frolicking half naked in the Victorian countryside – at least not when there are lots of cameras around. See http://www.flickr.com/photos/traveldailyau/sets/72157623523741953/
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Samoa no’s slide
Thursday | Mar 18 2010SAMOA Tourism Authority has reported a decrease of 8.6% in visitor arrival numbers during Jan compared to Jan 09, with Aussies accounting for 22% of arrivals.
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Travelscene wins
Thursday | Mar 18 2010JEREMY Reithmuller from Travelscene Wagga Wagga, and KISS Travel, WA are lucky winners of $5000 each, won in a joint Travelscene Amex and American Express Membership rewards promotion which will allocate $60,000 to 12 lucky Travelscene members over 2010.
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Air India in control
Thursday | Mar 18 2010STAR Alliance-elect member Air India has expanded its relationship with Sabre Airline Solutions, with the carrier moving closer to a fully integrated flight control system through solutions from the Sabre AirVision and Sabre AirCentre software suites.
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HoT also online
Thursday | Mar 18 2010NEW Zealand’s House of Travel has also this week launched a major online initiative – but unlike Harvey World Travel’s new search engine the HoT site is a self-service bookable system.