27 MAY: A selection of travel-related quotes from media over the past week.
"This will be the largest demolition ever carried out in NZ".
Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee announcing plans to begin demolition of the 26-storey Hotel Grand Chancellor in Christchurch in the new few weeks.
"The cabin crew is the last line of defence against attacks on the flight deck. Anything that reduces their capacity to guard against an attack must be resisted,"
Captain Richard Woodward of the Australian and International Pilots Union commenting this week on proposals by the Civil Aviation Safety Authority to allow a reduction in cabin crew numbers from one per 36 passengers to one per 50.
"This is the first time in 192 years that there has not been an overnight cruise go down the Mississippi River. It creates a great opportunity for us".
John Waggoner, ceo of the new Great American Steamboat Co, announcing plans to revive paddlewheeler cruises using the laid-up American Queen vessel.
"I usually dry clean my suits rather than wash them".
A wet NZ Prime Minister John Key after taking a jetboat ride during this week’s TRENZ travelmart in Queenstown.
"Every week, a nurse comes from Ireland and takes stewards and stewardesses into an office where they cut hair samples for drug tests".
An employee of Ryanair in Belgium revealing to a Belgian newspaper a sudden increase in the number of checks the Irish budget airline is conducting for cannabis use among staff.
"Why can’t companies enjoy and reap the increase in business, instead of ripping people off. What kind of a message is this going to send to our overseas visitors?"
An Aucklander responding to news that an airport shuttle bus operator will add $NZ20 a trip to the cost of a transfer to downtown during the September/October Rugby World Cup.
"We’re just trying to make a little bit of premium like everyone else in the business. We put it out there because we are on the honest side. Everybody else in the business is going to keep quiet."
Response from shuttle bus boss Raja Ganeshan.
