News
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Strong Feb for Fiji
Wednesday | Mar 24 2010ALMOST 13,000 Australians visited Fiji last month, with arrivals up 25% compared to the same period a year ago.
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Super ski pass
Wednesday | Mar 24 2010MOUNT Hotham, Falls Creek and Perisher Valley will this year once again offer their X3 Superpass which allows holders to ski and board at all three resorts for unlimited days in winter 2010.
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Julia wants to win $10k!
Wednesday | Mar 24 2010Julia Vanhuisstede of Harvey World Travel in Rutherford is pictured showing her support for the current SFO10K promotion in which agents can win $10,000 by selling non-stop return Qantas flights between Sydney and San Francisco. See http://www.flickr.com/photos/traveldailyau/4459005271/
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Indonesia to collect biometrics
Wednesday | Mar 24 2010THE Indonesian department of immigration has announced the rollout of a new border control system, developed by aviation IT provider SITA, which will see facial images and fingerprints collected from travellers.
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Alliance expansion
Wednesday | Mar 24 2010QLD charter carrier Alliance Airlines has announced plans to acquire 8 additional Fokker 100 aircraft which will be delivered progressively from May.
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Steady state for VS
Wednesday | Mar 24 2010VIRGIN Atlantic won’t be increasing capacity to London for at least the next 12 months, with the carrier consolidating its operations in the wake of the global economic crisis.
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Welcome back to BNE, PAL
Wednesday | Mar 24 2010After close to a 12 year hiatus, Philippine Airlines last Thu resumed direct flights between Manila and Brisbane, after suspending Qld services in 1998 during the Asian financial crisis. See http://www.flickr.com/photos/traveldailyau/4459761606/
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Travel Daily on location in The Cook Islands
Wednesday | Mar 24 2010AITUTAKI Island Resort is the only private island resort in the Cook Islands – and the only one to offer romantic over-water bungalows.
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Window Seat 24 Mar 10
Wednesday | Mar 24 2010A WOMAN in a wheelchair has been told to travel by train for 46km in order to cross to an opposite platform at a British railway station.
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ASTA slams iTrek
Wednesday | Mar 24 2010THE American Society of Travel Agents has once again blasted Aussie online travel insurer iTrek over the way that it’s withdrawn the controversial ‘The Travel Agent is Dead’ promotion (TD 09 Mar, 19 Mar).