News
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Top prize for TD reader
Monday | May 17 2010Top Dog Developments has named Grant Palmer of budgetflights.com.au as the lucky winner of a $50,000 online travel system in the recent competition run exclusively in Travel Daily. See http://www.flickr.com/photos/traveldailyau/4614618225/
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BA strike action
Monday | May 17 2010BRITISH Airways will operate its scheduled flights between London Heathrow and Sydney over the next five days despite the planned strike action by the carrier’s LHR-based cabin crew.
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Britain-Brazil deal
Monday | May 17 2010VISITBRITAIN has signed a new agreement with Brazilian tourism promotion organisation EMBRATUR which aims to increase tourism between the two countries.
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Window Seat 17 May 10
Monday | May 17 2010A SKINNY-DIPPING tourist in New Zealand paid a high price recently after a venomous spider bit him on the penis.
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Plenty of Renaults
Monday | May 17 2010RENAULT Eurodrive says there’s no shortage of vehicles available for leasing in Europe over the upcoming peak period.
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SeaDream savings
Monday | May 17 2010SEADREAM Yacht Club is offering up to 61% off selected sailings in the Mediterranean between 19 Jun and 28 Sep – see www.seadream.com.
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AFL winner
Monday | May 17 2010CONGRATULATIONS to Phil Symonds of Corporate Traveller who has won a Sunbeam Moon Shaker courtesy of Travelodge Hotels, after being the top tipper in TD’s AFL footy tipping competition last weekend.
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Pacific Blue lifts Tasman
Monday | May 17 2010VIRGIN Blue’s NZ offshoot, Pacific Blue, has extended its NZ regional long-haul strategy by boosting trans-Tasman flights from Hamilton and Dunedin.
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Turkish to delight?
Monday | May 17 2010TURKISH Airlines could launch services to Melbourne as early as Sep this year, Travel Daily has discovered.
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Viva! alters EY comm
Monday | May 17 2010JETSET Travelworld’s Viva! Holidays is advising agents that as a result of Etihad Airways’ restructuring its wholesale airfares distribution, the base commission paid on EY flights will be 7%, effective immediately.