STOCKHOLM, Sweden, March 21, 2002 (PRIMEZONE) -- SAS Corporate Card is SAS's new travel and payment card for business customers that want to integrate ticketless travel, payment and simplified administration. During the spring, Bennett BTI Nordic will launch the SAS Corporate Card as an offer to small and medium-size enterprises.
The SAS Corporate Card can be used as an electronic ticket and as tender. The card simplifies the process of booking and paying for flights.
"With the SAS Corporate Card, just about everything during a flight can be paid using the same card, and transferred later to a travel expense record. Regardless of airline and ticket-purchase location, flights are paid from a travel account, and all other expenses the traveler has are paid with the card. With its link to MasterCard, the card will be valid at more than 19 million purchase locations worldwide," said Hakan Olsson, Director SAS Corporate Card Distribution Strategies.
Following a flight, all expenses will be billed to the traveler's company on a single invoice. In addition to the payment functions, SAS can also integrate its electronic ticket products - E-ticket and Travel Pass Corporate - with the new card.
Two new Internet-based features that simplify travel administration for the client company and individual traveler will be launched in 2002. These are a statistical tool for companies and a personal tool that enables travelers to track their purchases.
Bennett BTI Nordic views the SAS solution as a useful tool that enables small and medium-size enterprises to follow up and monitor their travel expenses, while at the same time simplifying administration.
The SAS Corporate Card offers companies flexible payment and billing functions, as well as ticketless travel all on one card. The customer is free to book either by Internet or through Bennett BTI, which is one of the largest Nordic travel management companies, with nearly 100 offices through the four Nordic countries.
"We are convinced that this is the right solution for many of our customers. It is a good product that reduces total travel-process costs. By introducing new solutions, Bennett and SAS are demonstrating their common desire to offer the best to their customers," said Ingemar Akesson, head of marketing at Bennett BTI Nordic.
With nearly 100 offices and more than 1,000 employees in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland, Bennett BTI Nordic is one of the leading Nordic travel agencies. Bennett BTI Nordic is owned by the UK-based Hogg Robinson, and is a member of Business Travel International (BTI), one of the world's leading business-travel organizations, operating in more than 80 countries.
This information was brought to you by Waymaker http://www.waymaker.net