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Air Tahiti Nui wins the 2024 APEX Award for Best Food & Beverage in the South Pacific

November 12, 2023 /

November 10, 2023 – After winning the FIVE STAR MAJOR AIRLINE title for the 6th consecutive year, Air Tahiti Nui is delighted to receive another award from APEX and IFSA. The Polynesian company now wins the Best on-board food and beverage category for the South Pacific region. APEX, The Airline Passenger Experience Association, annually ranks international airlines and celebrates the best ones with prestigious awards.

The APEX/IFSA Awards 2024 are based on passenger ratings of nearly one million flights and 600 airlines. Each year, travelers are invited to give their feedback on their travel experience in various categories: products, services, cabins, equipment, food and beverages… All these ratings are thus collected and analyzed by APEX in collaboration with Porsche Consulting to deliver the famous APEX Official Airline Ratings™, a mark of quality and excellence in the aviation industry.

This 2024 edition rewards Air Tahiti Nui in the Best inflight Food & Beverages in the South Pacific. The Polynesian airline is indeed happy to offer meals on board all its long-haul flights. Snacks and meals are included in the fares of each of its three classes of travel. Food is also served with a wide selection of hot and cold beverages. Air Tahiti Nui carefully selects its menus to delight its passengers’ taste buds. The combination of culinary cultures from French Polynesia, France and Asia offers a unique and delicious travel experience. The airline also adapts its menu to its guests’ needs: a selection of 11 special meals is available for travelers with specific dietary requirements.

In Poerava Business Class, a multi-award-winning wine list also awaits passengers. This selection, created by Olivier Poussier, voted best sommelier in the world in 2000, enhances every meal on board.

Each passenger on board the Tahitian Dreamliner is offered a true sensorial journey. The care taken by the Polynesian airline to ensure the quality of its food and beverages delighted the passengers who gave their feedback for the APEX ranking. This title is therefore a wonderful reward, welcomed with emotion by Air Tahiti Nui’s teams.

The Award ceremony took place on Thursday, November 9 in Singapore, during the FTE APEX Asia EXPO. This major event, organized by Future Travel Experience (FTE) and APEX, brought together major names in the aeronautics industry over two days, to discuss the future of air transport and present innovations in the sector.

Virgin Australia and Big Red Group ‘Experience Oz’ sign multi year partnership

November 12, 2023 /

Monday 13 November 2023 – Virgin Australia and Big Red Group’s domestic travel brand, Experience Oz, have commenced a multi-year partnership giving millions of Australians better value, choice and more access to popular travel experiences when booking at virginaustralia.com.

Experience Oz, one of Australia and New Zealand’s largest tour and attractions marketplaces, covers upwards of 50 regions, and supports over 4,000 experience operators, ranging from cruises, tours, activities and more. The new partnership aims to boost both domestic tourism and the experience economy by providing ease and additional benefits when booking travel and packaged experiences at virginaustralia.com.

Amidst the high cost of living, fun-filled holidays for Australians will be more possible, with Experience Oz’s 4,000+ adventures available for Velocity members to book now using Points to pay for all or part of the booking with Points + Pay. Velocity members will now also have thousands of additional ways to earn Points.

To celebrate the new partnership, any experience booking made at virginaustralia.com before 11:59pm AEST 27th November 2023, will go in the running to win their dream holiday with two Virgin Australia domestic return flights and a $1,000 Experience Oz voucher*. Plus, until midnight 27th November members will earn triple Points (9 Velocity Points) as part of a limited time promotion.

 

 

 

 

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Rex Airlines wins APEX Award for best cabin service in the South Pacific

November 12, 2023 /

Rex Airlines has been recognised as having the South Pacific’s Best Cabin Service in the 2024 Airline Passenger Experience Association (APEX) Awards. The award was presented in Singapore last night where Rex’s Executive Chairman, Lim Kim Hai, accepted it on behalf of the airline.

The award ceremony was part of the FTE APEX Asia Expo, the air transport industry’s largest passenger experience and business performance event. APEX said nearly one million flights were anonymously rated by passengers across more than 600 airlines from around the world using a five-star scale.

Rex is Australia’s largest independent regional and domestic airline operating a fleet of 58 Saab 340 and 9 Boeing 737-800NG aircraft to 56 destinations throughout all states in Australia. In addition to the airline Rex, the Rex Group comprises wholly owned subsidiaries Pel-Air Aviation (air freight, aeromedical and charter operator), the Australian Airline Pilot Academy with campuses in Wagga Wagga and Ballarat, and propeller maintenance organisation, Australian Aerospace Propeller Maintenance. Rex is also a 50% shareholder of National Jet Express (NJE), a premier Fly-In-Fly-Out (FIFO), charter and freight operator.