Travel Daily - News on the Fly

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Latest Episodes

The Chat – Trailer
July 02, 2023

Travel Daily's Jenny Piper presents "The Chat", a series of personal conversations with some of the amazing women in the Australian and New Zealand travel industry.

Episode 57: It’s reporting season!
September 01, 2021

It's reporting season, so this week we're unpacking - that time of year when the highs and lows of the last 12 months are laid bare by our publicly listed companies. As youd expect it makes for some

Episode 56: V for Vaccination
August 19, 2021

With the Delta strain of COVID-19 running rampant, things are looking bleak. But the good news is that means V for Vaccination is on everyones lips - so this temporary setback may actually accelerate

Episode 55: Qantas – the hits just keep coming…
August 04, 2021

Qantas this week has stood down 2,500 staff while also continuing its onslaught on the distribution sector. ScoMo has laid out a perhaps highly aspirational path to recovery, and there are some indica

Episode 54: A Long time coming
July 22, 2021

We're in lockdown, but the world keeps turning. Weve had the AFTA annual general meeting, and then the highly anticipated announcement of a new CEO. And as well as vaccinations, the Government is put

Episode 53: Industry faces a big CHOICE
July 07, 2021

The COVID-19 craziness continues, as the Delta and now Lambda variants wreak havoc - but at last we have a plan from the Government - or at least a plan to develop a plan. Plus,consumer group CHOICE

Episode 52: It’s just money AFTA all!
June 23, 2021

AFTA's annual report is in, and it is juicy! Plus, the expected extension of the travel and cruise ban has been announced, with no sign of a cruise restart any time soon, and ongoing angst about the travel agent grants program. -

Episode 51: Scomo’s scaremongering
June 09, 2021

The frustration continues as we continue to call for a border reopening plan, and some sort of plan for a cruise restart. But we've seen enthusiasm about domestic business from agents at the Australian Tourism Exchange,

Episode 50: The worst of Bestjet
May 26, 2021

Almost three years ago we saw Bestjet Travel go under, and this week we were exposed to some of the gory details of this failure. Plus, there's been more fallout from the Qantas commission cuts, increasing choruses for border reopenings and even a trav...

Episode 49: A swift kick from Qantas
May 19, 2021

In this episode News on the Fly looks at the breaking news that Qantas is kicking agents while theyre down, by cutting commission to just 1%. In the past week we've also seen AFTA start a search, a b