Chief executive at Virgin Blue, John Borghetti, revealed his new management team to employees in Brisbane yesterday. The list of executives who will report directly to him has grown from six to eight. Andrew David, the airlines chief operating officer, has announced that he will be departing at the end of ...

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Maintaining an all-year-round tan by visiting a tanning salon could result skin cancer, according to some of America’s leading dermatologists. There is also a suspected link between the rise of the tanning salon and increased rates of melanoma in the general population. Since the early 1990s when artificial tanning facilities ...

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Budget arm of Qantas, Jetstar, will be offering passengers two new routes from the end of the year. In December the carrier will be adding Melbourne to Singapore to its itinerary and as of March next year, customers in New Zealand will be able to fly from Auckland to Singapore. The ...

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Jetstar, the budget arm of Qantas, has announced that it will be launching a trial this month to see whether passengers would be interested in hiring iPads on selected flights. The new Apple gadgets will come pre-loaded with games, a selection of music, books and movies. Currently Jetstar aims to ...

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Travel website, JohnnyForeigner.net, has just released the results of a survey to find out which country’s football fans are likely to be the most promiscuous during the upcoming World Cup in South Africa. A stunning 42 per cent of Australians who responded to the poll said that they were either going ...

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Qantas has been told that it owes thousands of the country’s travel agents substantial sums of money for commissions it has not been paying out since it started charging its passengers a fee for aviation fuel. The surcharge was introduced on all flights in 2004. Although it was later removed by ...

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A group of men, from some of the biggest companies in the country, have decided to get together to work out how better to increase the profiles of women in the work place. Ten senior executives, from companies such as Westpac, Telstra and Woolworths, aim to meet up regularly under ...

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Macquarie Group has continued its expansion into foreign markets by announcing that it will purchase a fleet of 53 commercial aircraft from a subsidiary of American International Group. The Australian bank has said that the deal with International Leasing Finance is worth $US2 billion. Reaching a deal has not been easy ...

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Retail giant Woolworths has said that it will be ending its exclusive relationship with internet and telecommunications firm Telstra. Instead, it intends to farm out its communication needs to individual companies specialising in particular services. The decision follows a review which has been going on for the past year. Woolworths has ...

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Cathay Pacific Airways has joined forces with Pacific Blue in a deal which will allow travellers from Hamilton to connect with the rest of the world. Pacific blue will now provide a service four times a week connecting with Cathay Pacific in either Sydney or Brisbane, from where flights to ...

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