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Virgin Australia starts business class to Sunshine Coast
IN BRIEF | Virgin Australia will add Queensland's Sunshine Coast to...
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Air NZ & Virgin Australia: baggage allowances to New Zealand
If you're travelling across the Tasman with Virgin Australia or Air...
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Malaysia Airlines changes bag rules, set to join oneworld in Q4
Malaysia Airlines says its plans to join the oneworld airline allia...
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Qantas vs Virgin Australia: have your say!
In this week's High Flyer blog for The Sydney Mornin...
Airport News
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Skip passport queues at Hong Kong with a Frequent Visitor Card
Want to breeze through the fast lane at Hong Kong immigration? If y...
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Feds push ahead on Sydney's second airport
The federal government will size up Wilton for Sydney's second airp...
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UK passport control agency to strike on Thursday 10 May
Headed for Heathrow, Gatwick or any other UK airport this week? Get...
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Would you use an airport book swap shop? Helsinki hopes so...
Picked up a book for a long flight, finished it and ready for anoth...
Hotel News
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New apartment wing, new Mercure name at Hobart's Hadleys Hotel
Hobart's Hadleys Hotel -- owned by international hotel group Accor ...
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New "Club Sandwich Index" compares hotel food prices worldwide
We've all heard of the Big Mac Index or the latte index – usi...
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Photo tour: Singapore Marriott's swish newly-refurbished rooms
Frequent travellers to Singapore will be familiar with the Singapor...
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Novotel Singapore Clarke Quay: new rooms, executive lounge
Novotel's only Singapore hotel, above Liang Court at Clarke Quay, h...
Lounge News
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Qantas clarifies Platinum access to Heathrow's AA arrivals lounge
Qantas has confirmed that Platinum frequent flyers will continue to...
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Inside Virgin Atlantic's funky Clubhouse lounge at New York JFK
Who doesn't love an amazing airport lounge? Now there's another gre...
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New Emperor Lounge for business, first class at Auckland Airport
Auckland Airport's newly-opened international Emperor Lounge is ava...
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20 percent off Priority Pass lounge network membership
Global airport lounge network Priority Pass is offering 20 percent ...
Tech News
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Turn your iPhone 4/4S or iPad into a personal WiFi hotspot
Need a quick hit of wireless Internet for your laptop when you...
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Inflight wifi Internet is getting up to four times faster
While inflight wifi hasn't moved much beyond the test stages on Aus...
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Google Drive: what business travellers need to know
Google launched its Drive online storage service overnight Australi...
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Screenshots: Appleās secret iTravel app for the iPhone and iPad
Could this be the killer app for the iPhone 5 or iPad 4? Deep in t...
Other News
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Five tips to keep your luggage smelling fresh on the road
We've all been there -- that point halfway through a business trip ...
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Independent 'airline advocate' to resolve traveller complaints
Frustrated travellers will soon be able to call upon an indepe...
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Next-gen jets: what's new in the airliners of the future
Forget about space-age concept planes and whimsical 'what if' ideas...
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Video: every flight in world over a 24-hour period, in one minute
Here's a little light-hearted Friday afternoon fun: an amazing vide...
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Air Pacific rebrands as Fiji Airways, new Airbus A330s due 2013
Air Pacific will rebrand as Fiji Airways as part of a turnaround plan that also involves new Airbus aircraft. The airline – which enjoys majority ownership by the Fijian government...
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Reviews & compared: the best travel money cards in Australia
Travellers are increasingly warming to prepaid travel money cards as the next best thing to carrying cash. Travel money cards such as the well-known Travelex Cash Passport and the relatively new A...
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Air Pacific reveals new seats & screens for Airbus A330
Air Pacific will enlist Panasonic Avionics and Weber Aircraft to reshape the airline's seats and inflight entertainment systems, beginning with three new Airbus A330s taking to the skies from June ...
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Cathay Pacific: new business class for Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide
Cathay Pacific aims to introduce its impressive new business class flights between Hong Kong and Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane and Adelaide in the second half of this year. Melbourne and Ad...
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Virgin Australia starts daily Melbourne-Sydney Airbus A330 service
Virgin Australia will wheel one of its big guns onto one of Australia's shortest but most popular routes today. That route is Sydney-Melbourne, which is in fact fourth busiest in the wor...
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