News
-
Qantas flight credit
Friday | Mar 27 2020QANTAS is offering any travellers with a ticket for travel before 31 Jul a flight credit valid for booking and travel until 31 Dec 2021.
-
CMV Vasco update
Friday | Mar 27 2020CRUISE and Maritime Voyages’ Vasco de Gama will no longer be able to disembark guests in Fremantle today after WA Premier Mark McGowan reversed the previously granted permission.
-
SAA office closure
Friday | Mar 27 2020SOUTH African Airways has shut its offices across Australasia from today until 16 Apr.
-
Singapore funding
Friday | Mar 27 2020SINGAPORE Airlines will issue additional shares, offer convertible bonds and has secured a loan in a move to help see it through the impact of COVID-19 on its business.
-
No more ships due
Friday | Mar 27 2020CRUISE Lines International Association (CLIA) has moved to clarify that no cruise passengers are scheduled to disembark in Sydney and no out-of-service ships berthed or anchored in NSW are carrying passengers.
-
VA downgrade
Friday | Mar 27 2020RATINGS agency S&P has placed Virgin Australia on “CreditWatch” after the carrier’s decision to temporarily ground 125 aircraft and suspend certain supplier payments, reflecting a view that VA’s “cash outflow liquidity pressures have intensified”.
-
Singapore rebrand
Friday | Mar 27 2020MANDARIN Orchard Singapore will relaunch as Hilton Singapore Orchard, following an agreement between the property’s master lessee, OUE, and Conrad International Management Services.
-
Leave Indonesia
Friday | Mar 27 2020SMARTRAVELLER has advised Australian tourists in Indonesia to leave now and not delay their departure, with flight options to Australia rapidly decreasing or ceasing altogether.
-
Former agent jailed
Friday | Mar 27 2020DISGRACED former US travel agent, Brian Box, has been sentenced to a minimum of 18 months behind bars after pleading guilty to 28 counts of theft from customers.
-
Maldives initiative
Friday | Mar 27 2020ADDICTED to Maldives has launched a project called Maldives United, which aims to stabilise tourism in the Maldives, bolster travel advisors and reignite consumer confidence.