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Dropping The Gauntlet
Sunwing Vows To Eclipse Transat In Three Years
Colin Hunter has a bold prediction: within three years his Sunwing Travel Group will quadruple in size, leapfrogging Transat as Canada’s largest travel operator. In an interview held the same day as Transat announced disappointing financial results, a confident Hunter said beating his archrival would be “an interesting challenge, but not a tall order.”
Montreal Gazette
Best Laid Plans
Eustache Says Transat Strategy Didn’t Work
Transat CEO Jean-Marc Eustache admits that his efforts to bring the company back to profit this winter have failed. “You can see the strategy didn’t work,” Eustache says. He cited stronger than expected competition from Air Canada Vacations and WestJet Vacations as a major factor in weak results, and called the winter “a slap in the face.”
Financial Post
No Middle Ground
Are Mid-Sized Agencies Being Forced Out?Since 2002, the numbers of agencies earning more than $10 million or less than $1 million per year have been steadily growing. Agencies posting sales in between those numbers have been steadily decreasing. ASTA’s Agency Profile report suggests that mid-sized agencies are either being consolidated into larger agencies or shrinking into smaller ones.
Travel Market Report
Open Jaw News: Ready To Rumble?
Newsroom
Investors Like Manny's Plans For TCook
BA Cabin Crew To Walkout Weekends Of 20MAR & 27MAR
Disney To Launch Annual Parks Pass
WTTC Says Travel Recovery Slow But Steady
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Cruise News
Preparing For The Eclipse, Celebrity-Style
Agents Lament End Of Era As Cunard Goes E-Docs
CLIA Posts Detailed Information On Gastrointestinal Illnesses
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March 03, 2010
Agents Don Winter Boots To Learn About Sandals
with Martha Chapman
You must be doing something right when you can lure 500 travel agents to downtown Toronto on the eve of the winter’s first snow storm.
Oh, and it’s the same night that our very own Golden Girls were in Vancouver, skating their way to gold in women’s...read on
March 12, 2010
Excuse me, dahrlings, but...
There’s No Order To Anything Anymore
The mighty Transat is being portrayed in a limp light (a CBC business reporter asked last night if a 10% drop in profits meant danger for consumers being stranded. Where do these people get their training? The Journalism Institute of Tehran? That’s like asking if there’s any truth to the rumour that Laureen Harper ... read on
The Best Of Ivanna
03/11/10
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