News
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Lindsay’s a big LAN fan
Friday | Sep 10 2010LAN Airlines has this week hosted a series of agent roadshows in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney to formally launch three new routes (see here).
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New HWK editor
Friday | Sep 10 2010CONSUMER family travel magazine Holidays with Kids has appointed Kayte Nunn as its new editor, succeeding Helen Hayes who will continue in an advisory capacity and contributor.
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US Koran alert
Friday | Sep 10 2010THE US Department of State has issued a Worldwide Qur’an Burning Travel Alert in response to the widely reported plans by a Florida church to burn the Muslim holy book on the upcoming anniversary of the September 11 2001 terrorist attacks.
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Counsellors push for UK protection
Friday | Sep 10 2010TRAVEL Counsellors in the UK has launched a push for new consumer protection rules in the British travel industry, in the wake of a spate of high profile company collapses this year.
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Window Seat 10 Sep 10
Friday | Sep 10 2010THERE were lots of honeymoons starting in Taiwan yesterday after a mass wedding ceremony in which couples sealed their vows at the auspicious time of exactly 9.09am on the ninth of September 2010 – the 99th year since the republic was founded.
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AirAsiaX denies ORY
Friday | Sep 10 2010LONG-HAUL low-cost carrier AirAsiaX has downplayed reports in French media which claim it’s planning to launch flights between Kuala Lumpur and Paris Orly airport.
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Cruise1st gm goes
Friday | Sep 10 2010SANDY Greenwood has left her role at the Royal Caribbean-owned Cruise1st Australian operation, which she helped set up (TD 09 Jun) and launched officially in Jul.
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MAS links PER/BKI
Friday | Sep 10 2010MALAYSIA Airlines is planning to launch a thrice weekly service between Perth and its new Sabah hub of Kota Kinabalu early next year, Travel Daily can reveal.
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TD’s NRL/AFL footy tip winners
Friday | Sep 10 2010THE phones have been running hot this week with eager footy tippers wanting to get the inside scoop on who won our NRL and AFL footy tipping competitions.
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ACCC blocks NZ/DJ pact
Friday | Sep 10 2010AIR New Zealand and Virgin Blue are currently reviewing the draft rejection of their proposed trans-Tasman alliance by the ACCC (TD breaking news), with Air NZ saying it “expects to respond to the ACCC’s concerns once they are identified”.