Flight Centre’s cruise and rail team is on track for further exceptional growth with its expanding range of packages. Infinity Cruise & Rail, or “CRail”, has delivered “stronger than market growth” over the past year, which is expected to continue into 2014. Julia Leary, Flight Centre’s national product and marketing...
Flight Centre’s cruise and rail
team is on track for further
exceptional growth with its
expanding range of packages.
Infinity Cruise & Rail, or “CRail”, has
delivered “stronger than market growth” over
the past year, which is expected to continue
into 2014.
Julia Leary, Flight Centre’s national product
and marketing manager, cruise and rail, told
CW that its network of retail outlets had
greatly benefited from access to exclusive
packages linking cruises with train travel,
supported by “expert booking teams” with indepth
knowledge.
“CRail is now one of the company’s strongest
performers and a key contributor to Flight
Centre Limited’s profitability,” Leary said.
Sales increases were “stronger” than the 11%
growth in the Australian cruise industry last
year, she said.
Infinity Rail has also shown year on year
growth “which we don’t anticipate dissipating
any time soon as interest in rail journeys
continues to soar”.
Best sellers Infinity Cruise & Rail identified
included: the Indian Pacific from Sydney
to Perth combined with a Royal Caribbean
or Princess cruise from Perth to Sydney;
the Blue Train from Pretoria to Capetown
combined with a Queen Mary 2 sector from
Cape Town to Fremantle; NTV rail sector from
Rome to Venice combined with Norwegian
Spirit’s Grand Mediterranean from Venice to
Barcelona; Eurail Spain Pass combined with
Liberty of the Seas’ Western Mediterranean
cruise from Barcelona; Swiss Travel System
pass combined with a Viking River cruise from
Basel to Amsterdam; Eurostar from London
to Paris to meet a river cruise to Budapest;
Rocky Mountaineer from Calgary to Vancouver
combined with Celebrity Cruises’ Alaska
Cruise-tour to Fairbanks; and New York to Fort
Lauderdale in a sleeper carriage combined
with Oasis of the Seas’ Western or Eastern
Caribbean cruise.
