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At Travel Partners you can. enquiries@sabrepacific.com.auWatch video now CALL TODAY: 1300 559 527 Monday 10th December 2012 or email: [email protected] BA premium econ deal Sabre parties on BRITISH Airways is promoting a Virgin Aus mulls Grabaseat LAST Thu night Sabre Pacific special $3309 premium economy AIR New Zealand’s discounted move, with a spokesperson telling hosted key industry partners at its return fare from Sydney to domestic fare product, Grabaseat, TD “We continually look at new annual Christmas party in Sydney, London via Singapore as part of is on the radar for trans-tasman ways to enhance our fare offering with a full page of photos from its ongoing commitment to the alliance partner Virgin Australia. and align with our airline partners the event featuring on page eight Kangaroo Route. Revealed by Air NZ’s outgoing where possible. We have nothing of today’s Travel Daily. From Apr next year, BA will chief executive officer to Travel further to announce at present.” operate brand new 777 aircraft to Daily in China recently at a Star An Air NZ website registered as QR boosts Jakarta Australia, and will also utilise Alliance event, Rob Fyfe said the grabaseat.com.au lists a range of London Heathrow Terminal 5 for tie-up with the Aussie carrier was DJ’s domestic sectors, promoted QATAR Airways will lift capacity the services making for smooth performing beyond expectation. as ‘Virgin Australia greenlight on the Doha-Jakarta route, with connections to 60 UK and Europe “We’re absolutely rapt on a deals’, based on DJ’s Saver fares, all 11 weekly flights to utilise 777- destinations - see the front page. number of levels,” Fyfe said of the is live but without any pricing. 300ER aircraft effective 01 May. partnership, now 18 months old. “We are considering all sorts of The Kiwi carrier’s boss told TD ideas to transfer, so it’s a really its codeshare with Virgin Australia healthy relationship,” Fyfe added. SYDNEY SHOW has “delivered better value then New opportunities in terms of we expected”, adding: “We’ve ground handling & collaboration STOPPERS! now moved to look at how Virgin on engineering and maintenance, can use a similar Grabaseat and other cost saving or revenue Sydney model in Australia, in time.” generating initiatives are also Grabaseat.co.nz launched in being evaluted, he said. Event packages 2006 - before Jetstar commenced operation in NZ - aimed at kick Nine pages of news starting the domestic air sector. Travel Daily today has nine Marketed as “our lowest fares pages of news & photos, for travel within New Zealand,” including a page of photos from Grabaseat fare options include Sabre Pacific, a front full page ‘greenlight’ one-day only deals. for British Airways plus full The seat-only domestic fares are pages from: (click) restrictive and do not permit • AA Appointments Airpoints Dollars or seat requests. • Travel Trade Recruitment Virgin remained coy on the and many more! Call 13 27 87 or visit qhv.com.au/agents Are you leaving your Click here to discover more > clients up in the air? 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River Cruising He said it was important that ceo Jayson Westbury. The wind-up of the TCF will see agents contribute and “take an Hailing the historic move which funds redistributed according to interest to ensure that future will see the abolition of travel its trust deed, meaning the consumer confidence in travel agent licensing and the phasing money will return to the various agents is no less than it has been out of the Travel Compensation jurisdictions, but a proportion will under the current TCF regime”. Fund, Westbury said the changes be dedicated to a range of “House of Travel expects the will address the evolution of the purposes including stakeholder implementation to be a truly industry, which has seen an communication and education collaborative transition,” he said, “increasing number of travel initiatives, a one-off grant for seeking a commitment to an intermediaries that were able to consumer research and advocacy, FLY BUSINESS CLASS industry-transparent process operate without a licence, a one-off grant to fund the RETURN $3,995 pp* resulting in a disproportionate which allows for “vigorous development of an industry-led Magnificent Europe River Cruise debate” as the way forward is regulatory burden on licensed accreditation scheme, as well as April to December 2013 further refined. travel intermediaries”. paying any transitional claims. 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Today’s issue of TD is coming to chain has launched an alternative you from Celebrity’s Solstice 13% versus the previous year. Travel Counsellors hosted its to the great outdoors, using a vessel which last night debuted “secret technique” to create a its inaugural Sydney season. annual conference in Liverpool a AS kicking for agents week ago, with more than 1100 ALASKA Airlines has announced Night Sky in the rooms of some CELEBRITY Solstice is the delegates in attendance. that it’s slashing commission for dozen properties across Britain. youngest superliner to call MD Steve Byrne revealed that Australian travel agents by a Artist Carl Marshall has Australia home, having been despite the ongoing financial whopping two thirds. created the “bespoke cosmic launched just four years ago. panoramas” which transform a Parent company Royal situation, Travel Counsellors grew According to an update issued its overall sales by 4% to £360m. on Fri, effective from 01 Jan 2013 standard white ceiling into a Caribbean Cruise Lines says the view of the galaxy.