There has been a lot of publicity regarding the swine flu, and countries throughout the world are reporting increasing numbers of people contracting the H1N1 influenza virus.
The following is some advice on what you can do to minimise the risk of contracting swine flu while travelling and also information on what is being done to [...]
Tiger Airways plans to increase its flights to Sydney from Melbourne and Adelaide after adding another Airbus A320 aircraft to its fleet in early October.
Tiger Airways Australia, which began flying on the Melbourne to Sydney route on 3 July, will increase the flights between the two cities to nine-daily from four-daily on 4 October.
The [...]
Whenever people hear that you work in travel, they will often launch into detail of their next trip to the other side of the world rounding off with the inevitable question – “How do I get the best deal on flights?”
At this point in time it is difficult not to get a good deal. In [...]
Qantas have announced that effectively immediately, Delta Airlines is no longer available for purchase in conjunction with Qantas flights within the North American market.
To cover the gap, Qantas have recently extended codeshare services with American Airlines which covers travel from Los Angeles to Atlanta, Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Detroit, Tampa, Cincinnati, New Orleans, Orlando and Memphis.
The move [...]
Information Technology Services have developed a handy website to assist staff who are heading overseas and need to take their mobile phone or personal mobile device with them to make calls while they are out of the country.
The website provide details on how to activate global roaming services, what the costs are for these services [...]
There have been many queries throughout the university of who is actually eligible to access the hotel rates in the university agreements. The rates are available to
ALL university staff and students, for business or private use.
External delegates that university staff may be booking accommodation for and bear the costs.
If the university is co/organising an event and [...]
V Australia and Delta have announced they are planning a joint services agreement between the two airlines on the highly competitive trans-Pacific route.
The agreement will strengthen the two airlines positioning in the Australian and US markets as it will provide double daily flights between Sydney and Los Angeles with flights departing in both the morning [...]
Property and Campus Services released a travel agency services request for tender earlier this week following approval from the Major Tender Board.
The tender was sent to thirteen travel agents identified through the recent traveller survey and a number of other travel agents who responded to the advertisement listed in the public tenders section of last [...]
Air New Zealand has produced a new onboard safety video featuring its employees without clothes and only covered by paint as a part of its new Nothing to Hide marketing campaign. No doubt it will attract a bit more attention than most safety videos offered by other airlines.
Tiger Airways launched services between Melbourne and Sydney for the first time yesterday and with it came the expected media frenzy on the potential impact the new player will have on one of the world busiest routes.
While Tiger is expected to push aggressively for market share with the release of deeply discounted fares, it [...]