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International gauge will take a See page eight for further The Travel Partners network has passion and triggering emotion.” 10.3% hit for the second half of details on updated policy. reached 255 members Australia- “In spite of current challenges, the financial year, with Sydney- wide, with the group expecting to travel is certainly an industry Los Angeles and the newly round out the year at 300. that thrives on emotion and launched Brisbane-Tokyo service An additional 55 people have excitement, spurred on by our both downscaled. joined the brand since Feb 2018 customers’ desire to see the The capacity changes amount (TD 18 Mar 2019), with the world, understand new cultures to a 5% reduction in the domestic network seeing rapid growth and broaden their horizons.” operation, mainly on routes with CANADA since it was acquired by Flight multiple daily frequencies in Centre (TD 07 Aug 2017), when it Tassie to respond order to minimise disruption. & ALASKA had 74 in the network. 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