CWT informs you
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Female travellers cost less, fly less and book earlier
Savings on travel costs with the American Express Corporate Card
Business traveller can do without the use of mobile phone or internet during flights
Female travellers cost less, fly less and book earlier
At the Crossroads Paris conference - organised by the Paragon Partnership and attended by 200 delegates from Europe and America – Mr Gall stated that women fly less, purchase earlier, more often choose for economy class tickets and incur fewer costs than male business travellers.
Not only do they book much earlier than men but they get noticeably cheaper flights, said Christian Gall, the card company's executive director international markets AirPlus International, who initiated the research.
On average a female traveller books her flight 19.2 days before travelling. For men the comparable figure was 15.4 days. Women paid an average air fare of € 1505,- for business class and € 230,- for economy class against € 1575,- and € 277,- for men.
Savings on travel costs with the American Express Corporate Card
With the American Express Corporate Card program your Company gets more control over business travel expenditure of your employees, drives savings and provides peace of mind for your travellers.
Cost savings
Your administration becomes more efficient with the Corporate Card, as all invoices are consolidated into one simple, clear statement. Your company benefits from up to 58 days extended payment through monthly invoicing, which has a positive impact on the cash flow of your company.
Visibility & control
With the extended online Management Information of American Express your company can maximize control on all expenditure and monitor compliance with the travel policy. By consolidating spend, our comprehensive data will help you improve supplier terms, and our tools will increase your process efficiencies resulting in indirect cost savings.
Benefits for employees
Your travellers’ are well insured while going on a business trip, with travel inconvenience, travel accident and baggage and personal possessions coverage. During or prior to the trip, Card members can get worldwide information and assistance by phone through the Global Assist service.
Card members also earn points with every expense (1 euro = 1 point) via the Membership Rewards loyalty program. These points can be redeemed for a wide range of luxury gifts or they can be transferred to KLM Flying Blue or other partner loyalty programs.
For more information please contact your American Express Account Manager on 020 504 83 00. The American Express Corporate Card can also be requested via Carlson Wagonlit Travel, please call your contact person at Carlson Wagonlit Travel for more information.
Business traveller can do without the use of mobile phone or internet during flights
Business travellers have absolutely no need for using their mobile phone during flights. Next to that they do not see a real necessity to access the internet. This emerged from a research of Carlson Wagonlit Travel.
Concerning the use of mobile phones, the business traveller fears to be confronted with loud phone calls that will keep him/her from working or sleeping. On the other hand business travellers are positive on the possibility of text messaging during flights.
The use of internet during flights is also not perceived as an important gain. ‘Nothing is that important that it cannot wait until we land’. Nevertheless a part of the respondents think that it would be quite useful to be able to check email, especially during long distance flights.
