Supermarket giant Woolworths has unveiled plans to become market leaders as suppliers of fresh foods as well as tightening up its range of products and concentrating on improving the quality of its own label brands. Over the past year, Woolworths has found itself consistently outperformed by rivals Coles, which has ...
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A Qantas passenger jet was forced to turn back to San Francisco Airport after one of its engines blew up shortly after take-off. Flight 74, bound for Sydney, was carrying 230 passengers and crew, all of whom managed to disembark safely.
Simon Rushton, a Sydney based spokesman for Qantas, described how ...
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Qantas has announced plans to expand capacity within Australia across a number of its networks. The plans include adding more flights to budget arm Jetstar as well as introducing new aircraft. Qantas aims to grow capacity by nearly 10 per cent and boost capacity on the Jetstar brand by around ...
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Retail experts are noticing an increase in the number of shoppers who are showing a willingness to break old brand loyalties as they search for better deals and discounted offers. Promotions on own-label alcohol are seeing retail giants Woolworths and Coles grab an ever larger portion of the market.
Currently, own-label ...
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Virgin passengers will now be given the opportunity to earn frequent flyer rewards when they fly with any of the four Virgin airlines, regardless of which airline’s frequent flyer programme they are a member of. Speaking at the National Business Travel Association International Convention and Exposition, Sir Richard Branson said ...
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Jetstar, the budget arm of Qantas Airways, is asking the government to consider relaxing the immigration rules on flights between Australia and New Zealand. Last year, Prime Minister of New Zealand, John Key, agreed with Kevin Rudd, the then Australian Prime Minister, that travel between the two countries should be ...
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Qantas Airways has announced that it would one day like to be flying passengers to Europe via China. Speaking to reporters in Sydney, while attending the Australia Pacific Aviation Outlook Summit, chief executive at Qantas, Alan Joyce, explained that the Chinese Authorities had already approved flights from Australia to China ...
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The creator of the flight data recorder, otherwise known as the ‘black box’, has died aged 85. Dr David Warren was inspired to come up with a data recorder capable of surviving a plane crash as he was investigating the crash of a de Havilland Comet en route to Australia ...
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According to a new report, Chinese Yuppies, or 'Chuppies' as they are otherwise affectionately known, are making Australia their number one choice when it comes to travel. The Visa PATA Travel Intentions Survey revealed that over half the people polled in mainland China said that it was their intention to ...
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Concerns have been raised over speculation that investment groups including Macquarie Group are looking to buy up farmland and use it for forestry plantations. It is believed that 5,000 hectares of farming land is currently under offer near Hamilton in southwest Victoria. It is thought that the new forestry projects ...
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