Executive Travel Saves Money, Expands Corporate Sales With UATP
Executive Travel, an Auckland-based travel agency, will utilize UATP to expand its corporate travel base, enhance
customer service and lower its distribution costs by accepting UATP for all travel payments, including corporate
clients' service fees and agency-specific fares. By becoming a UATP Merchant, Executive Travel is expanding service to
its UATP clients while offering a solution through UATP's data rich transaction tracking system.
"Quality customer service is what Executive Travel corporate clients expect, and through UATP, that is what we
deliver," said Kevin Weston, Sales and Marketing Director from Executive Travel. "By utilizing UATP, we are able to
extend to our corporate clients a valuable tool which helps Executive Travel to lower its distribution costs through the
low merchant service fees, while also delivering an easy to use system that reports superior data with all transactions
on one report for easy reconciliation for our clients."
Executive Travel has serviced the Auckland business market since 1975, catering to the corporate client and offering
value-added solutions for seamless business travel. Executive Travel is a part of the United Travel and Biz Travel
Group, which gives Executive Travel purchasing strength and discounts to provide clients with exclusive and
cost-efficient travel services.
In addition to the new fee processing capabilities, Executive Travel will continue to accept all UATP cards, which are
issued by 15 airlines worldwide and accepted by more than 200 airlines. Air New Zealand and Qantas Airlines are both
UATP Issuers in New Zealand.
About UATP UATP accounts are actively issued by 15 member airlines and accepted as a form of payment for corporate
business travel by more than 200 airlines worldwide. Airlines currently issuing UATP accounts include Aer Lingus, Air
New Zealand, Alitalia, American Airlines (NYSE: AMR), Austrian Airlines, British Airways (NYSE: BAB), Continental
Airlines (NYSE: CAL), Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL), Japan Airlines (Nasdaq OTC: JALSY), AirPlus International (Lufthansa
German Airlines), Qantas Airways, Ltd., Scandinavian Airlines System, United Airlines (OTC Bulletin Board: UALAQ), US
Airways (UAIRQ.OB), VARIG Brazilian Airlines.