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Qantas said it would contact CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS The move will also see First agents with affected passengers, Class and Premium Economy with those booked in First Class dropped from the QF New York offered reaccommodation in PALACES, FORTS flights, with the two-class A330- Business Class for the LAX-JFK and AND CASTLES 200 operating as a continuation of JFK-LAX sectors as well as a * QF’s flights to Los Angeles from refund of the fare difference. 9 Days from $1432 per person Includes 2 nights stay at Taj Umaid Bhawan Palace Auckland. Premium Economy pax will Effective 05 Jul the A330-200 similarly be offered seats in HIGHLIGHTS will operate on the Sydney- Economy Class. Auckland route, with Auckland-Los Qantas is also changing its OF INDIA Angeles returning to a daily flight flights between Brisbane and Los * 15 Days from $3312 per person using the smaller plane. Angeles, with QF16 to now operate Includes 2 nights stay at Taj Lake Palace Los Angeles-JFK moves from a on Wed and no longer on Mon. daily four-class 747-400 flight to a CLASSICAL 5 days per week A330-200 service. The sixth continent NORTH INDIA Qantas said customers can still AIR TICKETS’ ‘Seven Wonders’ promotion is now in its * fly five days per week from 9 Days from $1804 per person Sydney to New York with Qantas, penultimate week, with agents Includes 2 nights stay at Taj Jai Mahal Palace “and daily on codeshare flights offered the chance to win a trip with American Airlines”. for two to Buenos Aires by selling CONTACT ADVENTURE WORLD: QF tickets between 22-28 Mar - 1300 363 055 Contiki winner see page nine for details. 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CLICK FOR DETAILS Call 1300 inPlace Or Sydney (02) 9278 5100 National Sales Manager- Syd Global touring specialist, high end product. Travel Daily Innovative, results driven, sales focused leader req. AU Maximise business & relationships at National level. First with the news Salary: $85K + super + 30% inc Apply Today! Mon 22 Mar 10 Page 2 call or email:[email protected] EDITORS: Bruce Piper and Guy Dundas E-mail: [email protected] Ph: 1300 799 220 New QHols details EFFECTIVE immediately, agents Travel2 in half the time Window booking a Qantas Holidays or Viva! STELLA’S wholesale Travel2 and Bangkok, with Vanuatu and Holidays package will now need to brand has launched a new booking Rarotonga to be added in the next Seat provide their client’s date of birth process which it claims will allow two weeks. HOTEL employees are miracle details and ‘ticket by’ times on consultants to complete quotes or Moss said that using Qik Book workers, and Britain’s Premier Jetstar or Virgin Blue services. booking twice as fast as for an air and land holiday with Inn hotel chain has the evidence DOB details are required for pax previously. transfers meant bookings could be to prove it. travelling to the USA (incl Hawaii) Dubbed ‘Qik Book’, the new completed in just ten clicks, down The company last week for air and land bookings at the streamlined process has been from 17 previously. released a list of some of the time of reservation, following the developed for “fly and flop It’s available under the most bizarre requests its staff introduction of the Secure Flight destinations where customers “Package Bookings” option in had received from guests - ‘watchlist’ by the United States want to stay the whole duration in Travel2’s Calypso.net system. including one asking where he Transport Security Agency. one hotel with or without New FC team could buy a rhinoceros as a It is also now mandatory to transfers,” the wholesaler said. FLIGHT Centre has announced a birthday present for a friend. provide the DOB for any child Travel2 gm Rohan Moss told TD new management structure for its Another guest asked a staff under 12 at time of booking. the system “has been Stage and Screen and Campus member to “propose to his Agents making reservations with exceptionally well received by our Travel brands, which will both girlfriend” for him after he got JQ or DJ via Flightlink will also agents during the soft launch over now be headed up by Sue Garrett too nervous, while another notice a ticketing deadline date the last two weeks, with very as general manager. strange request was when a on invoices, shown in AEDT/AEST. positive feedback and a great She’ll be supported by Brad guest asked a staffer to sit in his If payment for flights is not take-up rate.” Jukes as national operations expensive Ferrari while he had received by the ‘Ticket By’ date a He said the Travel2 fare display leader for both brands, while dinner in the hotel restaurant “so PNR will be autocancelled, and it had also been enhanced to show Catherine Rankin will oversee the it didn’t get stolen”. will be the agent’s responsibility fares in price order along with national product and marketing to rebook the Jetstar or Virgin sales validity on tactical fares as “THIS is Britain, not Burma”. functions for both Campus Travel Blue airfare components. well as class and flight number The rhetoric in the ongoing restrictions where applicable. and Stage and Screen. battle between British Airways A “Time is money and Travel2 is management and cabin crew has helping our agents be more time IATA workshops stepped up a notch, with the efficient,” Moss said. IATA has announced that it will Unite union comparing BA ceo BIGGER Qik Book has already been expand its Travel Agent Workshops Willie Walsh with the extremist program with rolled out for Bali, Phuket, Fiji program to Melbourne, Brisbane, rulers of Myanmar. Perth, Adelaide and Hobart this In a statement issued during year, after the success of the last weekend’s strike the union BIGGER Sydney workshops in 2009. said BA’s approach was “not just The workshops aim to enhance bad industrial relations, it’s an rewards and a agent knowledge and best offence against democracy.” practices on the Passenger Agency BIGGER Program as well as Billing and ROUND-the-world fares weren’t Settlement Plan (BSP) operational available on this flight - and even range of brands procedures. if they were, passengers didn’t to sell. 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