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Dear Members,
A warm welcome to our new members. I hope that you will use our services for all your hotel bookings/car rental and travel insurance.
Our hotel department offers a personalised service. One email with your full itinerary and staff will be back with 24 hours with quotes at several hotels you can choose from. They will source the best rate for the dates. It may be the corporate rate or perhaps a special limited offer with added benefits. They will ensure you get the best rates!
Online boooking sites have their place, no doubt. But it is very time consuming searching for the right hotel, especially if you are travelling to many destinations or have unique requirements or simply want to ask questions. And when on the road and you have changes, you need to find internet access, get on line and try to make those changes and sometimes that is not easy. Again one email to us or a telephone call and we take care of it all.
Our staff are well trained and this is what they do. Business professionals run their business, their staff should not need to spend several hours doing what we do best!
The way we travel has changed immensely over the past few years.
Since the tragic events of 9/11, security is the most prominent change in the way we travel. Airlines and governments have become more security conscience and the carry on rules have become very restrictive. Delays due to security checks and limited carry on items have caused inconvenience, but very necessary.
Ticketless air travel began in 1993 and is here to stay ! Booking online conveniently from your office or home has been welcomed by most all travellers, business and leisure.
Roll on luggage began in 1987 when a pilot invented the first suitcase with wheels. A huge time saver, walk off the plane and no bags to wait for.
Smoke free flights, another welcome change began first with Northwest Airlines in 1988. Now all airlines ban smoking.
GPS car navigation systems - renting a car in a foreign city is no longer a nightmare!
Airbus A380 SuperJumbo introduced this year can carry 853 passengers!
And last but not least " yield management" dirty words to travellers who discover that the person in the next seat paid half as much as they did was developed in the mid-1980s by American Airlines and now is used universally by airlines, hotels and rental car companies. It allows them to adjust prices in real time based on various factors affecting demand.
Yours Sincerely
Stephen Hammond-Parker
Managing Director
Frequent Business Travellers Club
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