Budget cuts 'will hit travellers'
- BTN News
- Thursday, 10 May 2012
This week's Australian federal budget cuts to frontline border staff will mean visitors to the country will wait longer in airport queues and pay more for the privilege.
FBT change to hit travel industry
- BTN News
- Thursday, 10 May 2012
Changes to Australia's fringe benefits tax are aimed at the travel industry, with the taxable value of airline transport fringe benefits rising from stand-by value to market value.
Air NZ adds premium products on Perth run
- BTN News
- Thursday, 10 May 2012
NZ's Air New Zealand is to introduce Boeing 777-300ERs between Auckland and Perth, WA, from 03 September, adding 70 seats each way by replacing its 234-seat 767-300s on the route.
Double agent key to foiling Yemen bomb plot
- MICE News
- Thursday, 10 May 2012
Disturbing details are emerging from the US and elsewhere about the potency of the bomb devised by al-Qaeda in Yemen and which was planned to detonate on a US-bound plane.
Lufthansa appoints new cfo
- BTN News
- Thursday, 10 May 2012
German airline Lufthansa has named Simone Menne its cfo, effective July 1.
Strike hits UK airports
- MICE News
- Thursday, 10 May 2012
A 24-hour strike at UK airports Wednesday-Thursday this week is expected to cause disruption to arriving passengers until Friday morning.
Virgins link to promote in-flight experience
- BTN News
- Thursday, 10 May 2012
Virgin Australia, Virgin America and Virgin Atlantic have launched a joint advertising campaign to convey the unique global, Virgin in-flight experience to the Los Angeles, USA market.
Invited airline guests killed in crash
- BTN News
- Thursday, 10 May 2012
A Russian civil airliner that went missing on Wednesday afternoon with the likely loss of 46 passengers was on a demonstration flight and carrying representatives of four Indonesian airlines - Batavia Airlines, Pelita Air, Air Aviastar, and Sriwijaya Air - according to the Russian news website RT.
Sky marshals deployed on UK flights
- MICE News
- Thursday, 10 May 2012
Reports in the UK say that for some days, sky marshals recently were deployed on every flight between the UK and the US after US security services learned of a suicide bomb plot originating in the Yemen.
Christchurch: getting started again
- BTN News
- Thursday, 10 May 2012
Hotel developers are awaiting a decision by the new Christchurch Central Development Unit on the siting and size of a convention centre to replace the facility destroyed in last year's earthquake. Several other new and rebuilt hotels are due to come on stream in the next six or seven months.
NZ to have three major convention centres?
- MICE News
- Thursday, 10 May 2012
NZ prime minister John Key has raised the possibility of the government supporting three national convention centres - in Auckland, Christchurch and Queenstown. “I think there's an opportunity to have more than one under a national convention centre brand.”
QF+Tourism NZ partnership
- BTN News
- Wednesday, 09 May 2012
The marketing relationship between Qantas and Tourism New Zealand has moved into a new phase with the announcement at TRENZ 2012 in Queenstown – a QF port – of a NZ$4 million partnership.
Perth air service boost
- BTN News
- Wednesday, 09 May 2012
Western Australia's potential as a much bigger market for international visitors to New Zealand has been one of the themes of TRENZ 2012 in Queenstown. Air New Zealand and Virgin Australia underlined this by using the travel mart to announce that the long-standing Perth-Auckland direct service will be upgraded from September 3.
