Friday, March 31 2023 | ASIA TODAY INTERNATIONAL - Reporting the Business that Matters in Asia
SYDNEY - Virgin Australia and Hainan Airlines have announced a new codeshare agreement to provide travellers from China with access to an expanded network of Virgin Australia domestic connections within Australia and across trans-Tasman, including Cairns, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Hobart, Adelaide, Perth and Auckland.
SYDNEY – Vietnam Airlines and Sabre Corporation have used the backdrop of the annual global meeting of IATA in Sydney to announce expansion of their existing agreement which see VN leverage SabreSonic, Sabre’s passenger service system, is now operating on, to improve its retailing, distribution and fulfilment capabilities. Vietnam Airlines already operates on SabreSonic.
SYDNEY - Amadeus, a leading technology provider for the global travel industry, has released new data on ‘What Asia Pacific Millennial Travellers want’ in the latest series of Journey of Me reports first launched by Amadeus in August 2017.
Conducted in collaboration with YouGov across 14 markets in Asia Pacific including Australia, New Zealand and Japan, the research surveyed 6,870 respondents, 45% of whom were millennials at the time the data was collected.
Key findings included:
BANGKOK - Best Western Hotels & Resorts has accelerated its expansion plans in Vietnam with the signing of a new upscale property, the Best Western Premier Cam Ranh Seahorse Beach Resort, in Cam Ranh on Vietnam’s south-central coast overlooking the East Sea.
The world-class resort, residence and convention centre will be just five minutes from Cam Ranh International Airport and 20 minutes from the popular resort town of Nha Trang.
SYDNEY - Amadeus, a leading technology provider for the global travel industry, has released new data on ‘What Asia Pacific Millennial Travellers want’ in the latest series of Journey of Me reports first launched by Amadeus in August 2017.
QANTAS has ordered six additional Boeing 787-9s for its international network, to bring its fleet of Dreamliners to 14 by the end of 2020.
Arrival of the new aircraft will enable the airline to accelerate retirement of its last six Boeing 747s – an aircraft type that has been in its fleet since 1971.
Qantas Group CEO Alan Joyce said: “This really is the end of one era and the start of another.
“The jumbo has been the backbone of Qantas International for more than 40 years and we’ve flown almost every type that Boeing built.