AirPlus International Ltd Gears Up for Record Growth in 2003

We have developed a state of the art management information system - the AirPlus Information Manager - which allows companies on-line access, not only to their British Airways AirPlus Company Account data but to other credit cards too. This significant tool will allow travel managers to consolidate international data and be in the strongest position to fully analyse expenditure and thereby help improve efficiencies.

To support this business growth, we have increased our Sales/Account management team with the appointment of Denise Fletcher, formerly of British Airways as Account Manager, strengthened our inside Sales and Customer Support team and will soon be in a position to announce our new UK MD early in the New Year. In the meantime, Robert Corsius, the International Executive Director for AirPlus is acting as the interim UK MD."

As companies increasingly recognise the need for closer management of their travel expenses, there can be no doubt that the British Airways AirPlus Company Account will be in high demand.

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  AirPlus International Ltd is a leading international provider of card systems and online solutions for the day-to-day management of business travel. With over 16,000 corporate customers and an accounting turnover of 7.2 billion Euros in 2001, AirPlus International Ltd is a leading provider of business to business services in Europe.
  
  
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  The British Airways AirPlus Company Account operates through Universal Air Travel Plan, formerly known as Air Travel Card, the world’s first corporate travel payment system. Founded in 1936, UATP is owned and operated by each card-issuing airline and accepted by over 180 airlines worldwide. Today, 95 per cent of the available seat kilometers (ASKs) in the industry can be purchased using at UATP account. UATP is the airline industry’s own solution to control rising credit card costs and offers the most complete data and lowest administrative cost of any charge product in the airline industry.
  
  
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  The system is only available to companies through their travel agency.
  
  
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  BASYS was set up with Universal Air Travel Plan in March 2001.
  
  
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  The AirPlus Company Account was set up in the UK at the beginning of 1999.
  
  
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  AirPlus International Ltd is on Stand N626 at the Business Travel Show in London, at Olympia from 4-6 February 2003