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TN/AF Seek JV Deal Air France and Air Tahiti Nui have applied to the US Department of Transportation to commence a bi-lateral joint-venture agreement that would see the carriers co-operate and co-ordinate on services to/from Paris and Los Angeles. If it gains ap-proval, the agreement would also give TN passengers access to AF’s Europe network as well as provide more fre-quencies on the LAX-PAR route. Both carriers’ operations will remain un-changed, with one code-share flight per week, until approval is gained.
NZD Back Above US85cThe New Zealand dollar rose back above USD0.85c overnight ahead of the CPI announcement. It was trad-ing at USD0.847c this afternoon.
Great race hI UpdateWith just one day before Air Zea-land’s Battle of the Brands sales incentive draws to a close the carrier has released the latest brand rank-ings—which again show no change. The First Group still remains in the top spot, followed by Flight Centre, in second, and Stella, third. The incen-tives closes tomorrow, however NZ says the final brand rankings will not be out until early May to ensure all the booking data is in the NZ system.
AA Flights GroundedAmerican Airlines flights around the US and Canada were grounded Tue (local time) after the carrier lost its connection with Sabre. All systems have now been fully restored, says AA, but it expects continued delays and cancellations. Customers are be-ing offered full refunds or travel on another carrier for urgent travel. AA and Sabre have clarified that Sabre’s systems were not at fault.
Airfares and package holidays saw the steepest fall in price of all goods and services in the Mar 2013 quar-ter, according to the latest Con-sumer Price Index—and the drop is being labelled good news for agents.The CPI (which measures the chang-ing price of a fixed basket of goods and services bought by Kiwi house-holds) rose 0.4% overall in the Mar quarter, with six groups increasing in price over the three months. However five groups fell, with recreation and culture seeing the largest drop (down 1.6%).“The most significant individual downward contributions came from seasonally lower prices for inter-national airfares (down 9.9%) and package holidays (down 10%),” says
Flights, Package Holidays Price Drop
Statistics New Zealand. Domestic air-fares also fell 9.9%.Package holiday prices also fell in the Mar 2012 quarter but have been on the up in each corresponding quarter.
. . . Agent opportunityWhile falling airfare and package prices might seem negative for agents in terms of reduced commissions, the figures and surrounding publicity are actually just the opposite, say retail chains.“Reduced pricing on tickets and pack-ages is fantastic news for the con-sumer. Ultimately our entire industry competes for discretionary spend against numerous consumer goods, and anything that puts travel front of mind and more affordable for the customer is good for us all,” says Flight Centre’s general manager product David Coombes.House of Travel’s commercial director Brent Thomas agrees. “It’s good news for the consumer and more people will look to travel when they see those headlines,” he says. “There’s an op-portunity to make money if people are travelling. We need the volume to go through—and if you’ve got volume you can make a dollar.” The figures reflect an increase in Kiwis taking long-haul holidays, espe-cially to North America, says Thomas. “There’s more demand and more supply, people are travelling and it’s reflecting in those numbers,” he says.
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The number of Kiwi and Aussie agents registering for Emirates and Dubai Tourism’s mega famil incentive rose from 2514 last year to 3099 for 2013, while sales logged shot up from 6911 to 14,019 over the eight-week incentive period.“The response we have received from agents has been overwhelming, and we’re looking forward to welcoming almost 300 of our top-sellers from Australia and New Zealand onboard our flights to Dubai on 15 May,” says EK vice president Australasia Barry Brown.The agents (including 80 Kiwis) will spend five days experiencing Dubai including on a desert safari, lunch at the Emirates Towers, a gala dinner at Atlantis and an ‘amazing race’ with challenges to experience some of Dubai’s unique attractions. London was the most popular des-tination booked over the incentive
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period, followed closely by Beirut and Rome. The number of Dubai stopover packages booked more than doubled to 540.
QF SIN Short-lifesQantas has tactical Singapore fares from $1499 return ex Auckland/Wel-lington/Christchurch via Sydney for sales to 23 Apr. Agents should book in N class. Departure dates are 24 Apr-30 Nov and 16 Jan-31 Mar 2014. See qantas.co.nz/agents
Aus Shopping changeChanges to Australia’s Tourism Refund Scheme (TRS) come into ef-fect today, says the Tourism Transport Forum. Under the scheme, departing travellers may be entitled to refunds of GST and Wine Equalisation Tax (WET) included in the price of goods purchased in Australia and taken out of the country.Changes include that travellers can now obtain a refund of the GST and WET paid on purchases made up to 60 days before departure (previously 30 days); and travellers with multiple invoices of less than AUD300 from the same retailer will be able to aggregate those receipts to meet the minimum AUD300 amount (previously only sin-gle invoices for purchases of AUD300 or more were eligible).Travellers will also be entitled to use the duty free sealed bag scheme for off-airport purchases from duty free stores up to 60 days before departure (previously 30 days).
NZ reduces FijiAir New Zealand has reduced its short-life Fiji fares by $10 ow for sales to 22 Apr. See airnzagents.co.nz
rendezvous canadaThe Canadian Tourism Commission is looking for Kiwi wholesalers to at-tend Rendezvous Canada 2013, the country’s largest international tour-ism marketplace, this 12-15 May in Ontario. See rendezvouscanada.travel
737 Inspection requiredT h e U S F e d e r a l Av i a t i o n Administration has reportedly is-sued an airworthiness directive that will see more than 1000 Boeing 737s inspected in the US for faulty pins in the model’s tail plane. Reuters reports that the pins could break as they did not have adequate anticorrosive coating—but the directive also states airlines don’t need to act immedi-ately as inspection is only required after 56,000 flights.
AsPac Pipeline UpdateMore than 385,000 hotel rooms are in the development pipeline in Asia Pacific as of Mar, says the latest STR Global Construction Pipeline Report, with the largest expected supply growth happening in the Philippines. The archipelago will see a 35.7% growth in hotel supply if all 14,048 rooms in its active pipeline open, says the report, with India (29%), Indonesia (24.2%), Vietnam (18.7%), China (13.9%), Malaysia (12.9%) and Cambodia (12.3%) also reporting double digit growth projections. A total of 1788 separate hotels com-prise the pipeline, including projects in planning, final planning and those already in construction.
A380 Wing Fix okayedThe European Aviation Safety Agen-cy has reportedly given the green light for repairs to prevent crack-ing on wing ribs on Airbus 380 aircraft. The draft directive means planes being retrofitted with new wing components won’t be subject to a special range of check, reports Reuters. New superjumbos delivered from Q1 2014 will already incorporate the new design.
ek Brisbane SaleEmirates has fares to Brisbane on sale to 19 Apr, starting at $189 ow in economy or $599 ow in business class. Various travel periods are available through to 15 Mar.
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India Travel AdviceMFAT has reviewed its travel advice for India, warning women not to travel alone in the country following reports of sexual offences against foreigners there.There is some risk to Kiwi travellers’ security in India including in New Delhi and Mumbai from continuing threat from terrorism, and extreme risk in other parts including Jammu and Kashmir.MFAT continues to receive re-por ts of planned terror ist at-tacks in India which in the past have targeted public places fre-quented by Western tourists, it says. Kiwis should avoid walking alone at night in less populous and unlit areas, and women should not travel alone following a number of attacks including in major cities and tourist destinations.
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eY To YemenEtihad Airways will commence flights to Yemen’s capital Sana’a on 01 Sep, the carrier’s eighth Arabian Peninsula des-tination. The four-times-weekly ser-vice will be operated by an Airbus 320 aircraft in a two-class configuration.
cox And kings changesCox and Kings chief executive Steve Reynolds is leaving on 14 Jun and will be replaced by New Zealand boss Greg Osborne, who is moving to Mel-bourne for the job.Reynolds has worked with Tempo Holidays and latterly C&K Australia for more than 10 years, but says it’s ‘time for a new challenge’.He says he leaves the company ‘in good shape and well positioned for the future’.
Go Pacific IslandsGO Holidays has Pacific Island packages, flying Air New Zealand, for sales to 22 Apr. Lead-in four-night Fiji deals are from $649pp s/t ex Auckland, five nights in Sa-moa is from $699pp s/t, seven-night Vanuatu packages are from $999pp s/t, four-night Tahiti deals are from $1339pp s/t and seven-night Hawaii holidays are from $1499pp s/t. Flights are based on Seat + Bag fares, with Works and Works Deluxe upgrades available. GO has details.
It seems a case of when, not if, Hawaiian Airlines will move to a year-round fourth service a week between Auckland and Honolulu.The carrier announced ear-lier this year its plans to move to a seasonal fourth service a week over the holidays peak later this year. Follow-ing ‘strong support’ from the Kiwi market, HA is now hint-ing at a year-round fourth service.“Nothing would make us happier to expand to four, five or even daily services, and I think we can be highly successful,” HA chief commercial officer Peter Ingram told Travel Today at the Harvey World Travel conference in Waikiki last weekend. Ingram says he is optimis-tic about increasing the frequency on the route but would not be drawn to timeframes.
. . . A Good StartCalling Auckland an untapped mar-ket that used to generate a lot of Hawaii visitors, Ingram said he was amazed that a city the size of Auck-land has not been served by a US car-rier until HA’s return last month.“We’re pretty pleased how things have built up, we’re learning about season-ality...we’re happy how things are looking so far,” he said. “We’ve already added [seasonal] capacity, and we are expecting demand to build as people start to experience the product.”
HA, A Fourth Service and Mainland Focus?
While attracting inbound traffic to New Zealand is essential to the sus-tainability and growth of the service, Ingram said growing the number of Kiwis travelling outbound to Hawaii and the US was the most critical seg-ment to the equation.
. . . US Mainland FocusSpeaking to agents at the HWT con-ference, Ingram called for their sup-port to sell HNL and the carrier’s 11 mainland US destinations, to make the routes a success for agents and the airline. He said Kiwi travellers were known for their ‘great’ length of stay, and that HA’s dual destina-tion proposition would resonate well with Kiwis. “It’s a great way to break up a journey in Hawaii, and New Zealanders tend to travel for longer vacations.”HA has specifically timed AKL-HNL to connect with all of HA’s 11 main-land US destinations bar NYC. Those 10 flights have connections both ways, while the NYC flight connects northbound, and requires a stopover southbound. Ingram said one of the opportunities with HA’s North Amer-ican network is that some seasonal downtimes coincide with the South Pacific travel peaks.
Hawaiian Airlines chief commercial officer Peter Ingram is pictured centre with HA’s Kiwi sales manager Russell Williss and Stella boss Greig Leighton.
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BBc Sells lonely PlanetBBC Worldwide has reportedly sold travel guide business Lonely Planet at a USD121 million loss for USD75 mil-lion to a US media company. World-wide bought the company for USD196 million in 2007, and the sale follows a change in BBC strategy to focus on its own brands, say widespread reports.
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