News
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EK adding Madrid
Wednesday | Jan 6 2010EMIRATES continues to expand its global network, overnight saying it will add Madrid as its next destination, effective 01 Aug.
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Turkish delights Airbus with order
Wednesday | Jan 6 2010STAR Alliance member carrier Turkish Airlines has placed an aircraft order with Airbus for up to 30 A320 family planes as part of its fleet-expansion plan.
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Club Med appealing
Wednesday | Jan 6 2010CLUB Med Australia says its seen a growth in the Free Independent Traveller market from all states in the six-months to 31 Oct 2009.
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T2 stocktake sale
Wednesday | Jan 6 2010TRAVEL2 has kick started 2010 with a global ‘Holiday Stocktake Sale’, promoting a range of deals across the wholesalers entire product range.
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Talpac Vanuatu
Wednesday | Jan 6 2010TALPACIFIC Holidays has announced the release of its new 2010/11 brochure for Vanuatu.
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QF A380 delay again
Wednesday | Jan 6 2010QANTAS has been forced to postpone another of its Airbus A380 services between Australian and the US, just days after experiencing a fuel gauge error with the Lawrence Hargraves superjumbo in MEL that delayed 443 passengers (TD yest.).
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Webjet TTV nears 1/4 $1B
Wednesday | Jan 6 2010WEBJET said yesterday its seeing tentative signs of demand recovery as it reported a half year rise in total transaction values – gross value of flight, hotel and car hire bookings – of $248 million for the six months to 31 Dec, up 37% for the same time last year.
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TCF termination
Wednesday | Jan 6 2010THE Travel Compensation Fund has terminated the participation of Trutravel (ABN: 22 130 310 137), of Sinnamon Park, QLD, as well as Islandbound Holidays (ABN: 35 009 449 825) of Subiaco, WA for not lodging annual financial returns.
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Chunnel bickering
Wednesday | Jan 6 2010EUROTUNNEL has critised Eurostar for the manner in which it handled the breakdown of the Eurostar in the Channel Tunnel last month, which left hundreds of passengers on five trains stranded for hours (TD 21 Dec).