News
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Japan East rail
Wednesday | Aug 18 2010INTERNATIONAL Rail in Melbourne is offering Japan Rail East Passes to compliment ski packages and holidays in the country priced from $48 per day.
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AC doubles Tokyo
Wednesday | Aug 18 2010AIR Canada has announced it will add a new daily direct service to Tokyo Haneda Airport from Vancouver, beginning 29 Jan.
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Hotham openings
Wednesday | Aug 18 2010VICTORIAN ski-field Hotham is today opening its Keogh’s and Orchard chairlifts for the first time this season, following 42cm of fresh snowfall this week.
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Tiger India growth
Wednesday | Aug 18 2010TIGER Airways is expanding its operation in India, launching two new routes from Singapore to Tiruchiralpally (four times weekly) and to Thiruvananthapuram (thrice weekly), effective 31 Oct.
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Evergreen pushes Europe pricing
Wednesday | Aug 18 2010SCENIC Tours’ sister company Evergreen Tours has extended its 2011 River Cruising program to include five new standalone European land tours, which are available and on sale now.
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Seatbelts on buses
Wednesday | Aug 18 2010THE US Dept of Transportation has this week renewed its call to have seatbelts fitted to new large tour-style motorcoaches, to be implemented within four years.
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SQ pax up a bit
Wednesday | Aug 18 2010SINGAPORE Airlines has reported a 1.2% year on year growth in passenger numbers during Jul, with the carrier’s overall load factor improving by 2.7 points to 82.4%.
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ANA lowers fuel levy
Wednesday | Aug 18 2010AIR Nippon Airways is dropping its fuel surcharge on international flights by between US$6 (on the Japan-Korea route) and up to US$37 per sector, on routes from Japan to Europe, the Middle East, and North America.
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Air India ADM threat
Wednesday | Aug 18 2010AIR India/Indian Airlines has advised travel agents of a new “CRS booking fee monitoring policy,” warning that it intends to issue Agent Debit Memos for “excessive duplicate booking activity”.
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Jesinta tweets for Delta
Wednesday | Aug 18 2010Miss Universe Australia Jesinta Campbell was certainly won over by her recent Delta Air Lines flight experience to the USA for next week’s Miss Universe pageant being held in Las Vegas.