News
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Eat, Pray, Love with Webjet
Friday | Oct 1 2010LAST night Webjet invited industry guests, airlines and tourist boards to Eat, Pray, Love, in celebration of its latest promo (see here).
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Garuda pre seating
Friday | Oct 1 2010GARUDA Airlines says from today it can pre seat and confirm pax seat allocation on most flights.
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Travel Daily on location with Rail Europe
Friday | Oct 1 2010OUR air sponsors, THAI have possibly the most legroom of any economy seat that I’ve ever sat in on a long-haul flight.
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Fraudster still trying
Friday | Oct 1 2010YET more travel agents have contacted TD following up our stories on the scammers targeting the industry with seemingly bona fide identification documents and local phone numbers (TD 24 Sep).
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Longer Thredbo ski
Friday | Oct 1 2010THREDBO has announced it will stay open for a longer ski season despite the official season ending this weekend, due to record snowmaking and and a cool Sep.
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Int’l traffic up 10%
Friday | Oct 1 2010LATEST govt stats show that passenger traffic on international flights for the year ended Jul 2010 increased by 10.1% to 25,871 million movements, compared to the same time 12 months earlier.
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SQ KKs GRU/BCN
Friday | Oct 1 2010SINGAPORE Airlines has confirmed it will launch its first services to South America from Mar next year, as flagged by TD last month (TD 09 Sep).
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154 ships in Sydney
Friday | Oct 1 2010THE NSW government says the 2010-11 Sydney cruise season, will be the busiest on record, with a 154 ship visits calling into Sydney Harbour, around a 30% increase on last year’s figure.
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No ASTA slogan restriction
Friday | Oct 1 2010THE American Society of Travel Agents is not trying to stop Australian travel agents from using the ‘Without a Travel Agent, You’re On Your Own’ slogan, according to a formal advice from ASTA overnight.
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VA adds LHR fares
Friday | Oct 1 2010VIRGIN Blue Group’s long haul international carrier V Australia has today launched fares to London operating via Abu Dhabi, with promo fares for 01 Mar being advertised online priced at $1,200 plus taxes ($1670 with taxes), Travel Daily can reveal.