Qantas has admitted that due to increased competition, it has lost market share with its code-share partner South African Airways on the route between Australia and South Africa. Qantas is currently looking to extend its code-share agreement on the Sydney to Johannesburg route with South African Airways for at least ...
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A man from Cairns has pleaded guilty to making a threat and false statement after he explained to passengers attempting to disembark a Jetstar plane at Cairns Airport that there was a bomb on board. 26-year-old Noel Marama claims that he made the statement in order to get people off ...
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A pilot with United Airlines found himself in trouble with Brazilian airport authorities on Friday after he decided to drop his trousers whilst passing through security. As part of the security screening process 49-year-old Michael D Slynn was asked by officials to remove his belt and his shoes. According to ...
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Malaysia Airlines has announced that it will be investing RM450 million in improving offerings and service standards to its customers. The investment will be spread over five years. Tan Sri Dr Munir Majid, the airline’s chairman, said that plans to continually invest in Malaysia Airlines proved how committed the carrier ...
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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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Retail giant Woolworths has announced that it is to open one of its first home improvement stores in Ipswich, Queensland. The venture will be in partnership with Lowe’s and the supermarket claims that it will introduce around 130 new full and part-time jobs to the town.
Construction of the 12,500sqm store ...
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Wellington Airport has made its objections to a tie up between Air New Zealand and Pacific Blue known to regulatory bodies in New Zealand and Australia. The airport claims that any alliance between the airlines would reduce competition and could cost the city millions of dollars a year in lost ...
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A Woolworths baker has been fined $600 by a magistrate’s court for willfully damaging machinery just days before Christmas. Brandon Jason Gordon pleaded guilty to damaging a mechanical mixer and a labeling machine in the Biloela Woolworths where he had worked for three years. The 18-year-old said that he had ...
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The boss of a leading car hire firm joined more than 680 other company chief executives from across the nation to bed down in the open for a night to raise awareness and money for Australia’s homeless people. Bryn McGoldrick, CEO of Thrifty Car Rental, said that he had decided ...
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Virgin Blue has said that the implementation of its new ticketing system over the long weekend went better than expected. For a period of 28 hours from late Saturday to early on Monday, Virgin’s check-in procedures were entirely manual. A Virgin spokesman has since said that even though customers were ...
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