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Richard Moss
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How having a travel account can make your life easier!
Paying for the company’s travel on invoice saves a lot of time and effort. However, Your Travel Corporate work closely with American Express to offer an alternative. An American Express Lodge Account offers a huge list of extra benefits to be had when managing business travel.
You can have multiple card holders on the same account, meaning each traveller can have their own card to book their business travel. This can be monitored from one central login, which makes it easier to keep track on individuals spends.
You will acquire 1.5 Avios points for every £1 spent on the card. These points can then be used to pay for further business trips or upgrades. Your Travel Corporate can fully manage the Avios account for you and let you know when you have enough for a trip or an upgrade, making this process as easy as possible. You will earn 50% more On Business points (company points). Also, there is a 2,500 On Business point bonus when you spend £25,000 or more in a year. For more information on On Business and how it can benefit your company please get in touch.
With an American Express Lodge Account, you have up to 55 days invoicing. With 10 billing cycle options available it makes it so simple to manage cash flow.
You can choose to provide worldwide cash access to card holders travelling on business, as part of your company programme.
Each card holder that travels will have access to Global Assist. This emergency hotline is to be used on any international or domestic business trip. It’s a phone service that will have you connected to an English-speaking medical or legal assistant at any time of the day.
The American Express Lodge cards also support contactless and Apple pay.
If you would like any more information or would like to get started with the American Express Lodge Account please get in touch today. You can either call us on 0203 805 4599 or email hello@yourcorporate.co.uk
Creative Resins has been at the forefront of decorative glass technology for over 30 years. When Louise contacted us to help with a trip to Oman, we discovered that the company had been using an airline’s website to book direct, paying in excess of £5,000 per trip in Business Class. Using our negotiated fares on this one flight YourTravel saved over £1000 per trip. Upon further investigation and a year’s great relationship, we delved into the companies travel policies and booking habits. We found that travel was often booked at the last minute and there was no one in authority to keep a watchful eye over what was being booked and where. We then worked with Louise to create passenger profiles for all of Creative Resins travellers including details such as preferred seat numbers, meals and airlines – we also set in place cabin restrictions (who can and can’t travel in an upgraded travel class). We then looked at the company’s calendar for the coming year, estimating when and where they would need to book travel and agreed that Your Travel would be proactive in trying to get confirmed travel dates from 4 weeks prior to the trip dates. This created a stress-free booking system that took budget and organisational pressure from the senior management, knowing they would always be working with a cost-effective travel budget. This lead to a reduced travel spend of just over 16% without cost-cutting and maintaining a high level of service.
‘’Working with Your Travel Corporate has been an enlightening experience, we were wasting money on travel and working with John and the team was very easy indeed. Everything is taken care of on every trip and we get a level of service that just can’t be achieved by the bigger travel agents, being treated as a valued client and not just another customer is fantastic!’’ Louise Bollom, Director
