{"id":9848,"date":"2010-01-05T01:59:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T01:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/v-australia-becomes-the-official-airline-to-the-australian-open-2\/"},"modified":"2010-01-05T01:59:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T01:59:00","slug":"v-australia-becomes-the-official-airline-to-the-australian-open-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2010\/01\/v-australia-becomes-the-official-airline-to-the-australian-open-2\/","title":{"rendered":"V Australia becomes the official airline to the Australian Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Open organisers are proud to announce the signing of a new sponsorship deal with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vaustralia.com.au\/\">V Australia<\/a>, the international airline of Virgin Blue Airlines Group. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Commencing today, V Australia will be known as the official airline of the Australian Open and the Brisbane International.<\/p>\n<p>The new partnership will see all Tennis Australia staff travel with V Australia internationally and Virgin Blue domestically.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are excited to have V Australia as a new partner for the Australian Open and Brisbane International,&#8221; Tennis Australia&#8217;s CEO Steve Wood said today. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;V Australia is a vibrant new brand and a natural fit for the Australian Open and the Australian Open Series event in Brisbane.&#8221; \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Their sponsorship will inject a new dynamic to the game of tennis and I look forward to working closely with V Australia in the future,&#8221; Steve Wood said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Scott Swift, Executive General Manager, V Australia, said, &#8220;V Australia is thrilled to be involved with Tennis Australia as their official airline and to be associated with one of the world&#8217;s most prestigious sporting events \u2013 the Australian Open.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The game of tennis was once known as the &#8216;Game of Kings&#8217; but is now a game enjoyed by all from the elite professional tournaments to backyard rallies. In the same way tennis appeals to a large cross-section of the community, so to does V Australia which offers a suite of travel options from premium top-end Business to spacious Premium Economy and Economy travel,&#8221; Scott Swift finished. <\/p>\n<p>Australian Open 2010, presented by Kia Motors in association with ANZ, Jacob&#8217;s Creek and Rolex, will take place at Melbourne Park from January 18 to 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Open organisers are proud to announce the signing of a new sponsorship deal with V Australia, the international airline of Virgin Blue Airlines Group. \u00a0 Commencing today, V Australia will be known as the official airline of the Australian Open and the Brisbane International. The new partnership will see all Tennis Australia staff travel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}