Travel Incorporated Enhances Customer Service, Lowers Distribution Costs as UATP Merchant

WASHINGTON, Oct. 13  /PRNewswire/ -- Travel Incorporated is lowering its distribution costs and enhancing customer service as a new UATP (Universal Air Travel Plan) Merchant.  Travel Incorporated officially began accepting UATP as a form of payment 20 September 2005.

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"Listening to our customers is what breeds success for Travel Incorporated," said Tina Haney, CFO Travel Incorporated.  "We want to provide to our corporate clientele the necessary tools for their success and a frequent request has been for Travel Incorporated to accept UATP; we listened."

Travel Incorporated will settle all UATP transactions through UATP Settlement Services (USS), a low-cost, weekly settlement system that matches fees and air tickets electronically, allowing for easy reconciliation of accounts for travel agents and their customers for non-clearinghouse transactions.

Corporate customers of Travel Incorporated will benefit from the UATP Settlement Services (USS) as well, because the data captured will specifically track all service fees, net fares, and airfares charged on their UATP account, providing them with state of the industry air travel expense management information.

Founded in 1979, Travel Incorporated, Duluth, Georgia, is a privately held travel management company, serving both the corporate and leisure traveler with the most advanced travel technology solutions, 24-hour assistance, the latest in management reporting technology and cost savings management programs, Web-based travel booking tools, and comprehensive travel management consulting.  Travel Incorporated is also a North American partner in RADIUS, the world's largest travel company with combined sales of over $21 billion generated by more than 6,300 travel agency locations in 80 countries.

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UATP accounts are accepted as a form of payment for corporate business travel by more than 200 airlines worldwide. UATP accounts are issued by theses airlines: Aer Lingus, Air New Zealand, American Airlines (NYSE:AMR), Austrian Airlines, Continental Airlines (NYSE:CAL), Delta Air Lines, Japan Airlines (Nasdaq OTC: JALSY), Qantas Airways, Ltd., Scandinavian Airlines System, United Airlines (OTC:UALAQ) (BULLETIN BOARD: UALAQ) , US Airways (UAIRQ.OB), and VARIG Brazilian Airlines.  AirPlus International issues the UATP-based Company Account for: British Airways (NYSE:BAB), Lufthansa German Airlines, Northwest Airlines (NASDAQ:NWAC), Continental Airlines (NYSE:CAL).

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