(TDN): Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, will begin services from its Abu Dhabi home-base to the South African city of Cape Town on 30 September 2009. The new Cape Town flights will operate via Etihad’s current daily, Airbus A330, service to South Africa’s commercial capital Johannesburg.
It will be Etihad’s second destination in South Africa and its fifth on the African continent, joining Khartoum, (more…)
(TDN): Emirates has launched its first airport lounge in Africa at the OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg, bringing the total number of lounges the airline has established across its network, for the exclusive use of its customers, to 23.
The Dubai-based airline has also unveiled plans to introduce three more Emirates Lounges to cater for its First and Business Class passengers and frequent flyers (more…)
(TDN): Tourist destination VisitBrighton hopes to become the “First Photosynth City” as its use of Microsoft’s cutting-edge technology gathers pace. All eyes are on the vibrant, forward-thinking city and its destination management supplier New Mind as they put brand new Microsoft technology to its best effect and take e-tourism into a new era.
New Mind has incorporated Photosynth, a new feature of Microsoft’s Bing Maps for Enterprise, into its Destination (more…)
(TDN): American Express Business Travel, a global leader in business travel management, announced “Meetings Month”, a month-long online event profiling discussion forums, white papers, community blogs and a Green Meetings Group aimed at providing insight and advice on managing meetings programs and delivering return-on-investment in meetings spend.
The initiative is hosted on businesstravelconneXion.com (btX), the online corporate travel community (more…)
(TDN): US Airways, is turning aircraft into Wi-Fi ‘hotspots’ by partnering with Aircell to provide Gogo Inflight Internet service beginning in early 2010. Full Internet access including Web, Instant Messaging, email and VPN access will be available for purchase to passengers with laptops, smartphones and other Wi-Fi enabled devices.
“Gogo Inflight Internet will allow our customers to make the most of their flying time by catching (more…)
(TDN): Etihad Airways has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT) in the UAE to provide its students with opportunities to develop skills for future careers in aviation.
The agreement between the Abu Dhabi-based airline and the higher education institution supports the development of the UAE national workforce by providing students (more…)
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