Flight Centre Business Travel UK Service Brochure

Your truly local service

Who are we

A LOC AL EXPERT IN YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD

Since 1995, Flight Centre has been providing personalised travel expertise to all its customers. By 2005, demand for our business travel expertise had outgrown our shop capacity and Flight Centre Business Travel (FCBT) was born.

With 51 teams in 26 offices across the UK and Ireland you’ll always speak to a real person who understands your requirements and who takes an interest in your reason for travel.

Fast forward to the current day and FCBT manages the travel needs of over 2000 customers ranging from individual business owners to larger corporations.

We specialise in the SME travel spend market with emphasis on your local area.

We continue to be known for our great service delivered by true travel experts.

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GLOB AL STRENGTH Since opening its first store in Sydney in 1981, Flight Centre Travel Group has grown to become one of the world’s largest independent travel retailers.

20,000 Staff worldwide with turnover of

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30 brands Retail, corporate and wholesale brands

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FCBT operates across 6 markets inc. UK, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, Canada and the USA

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Staff with 2016/17 turnover of

£200M

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We look after approximately 15,000 business travellers each year

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LONDON

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BRISTOL

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LEEDS

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MANCHESTER

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BIRMINGHAM

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OXFORD

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DUBLIN

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BRIGHTON

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HOVE

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We partner with over 1800 UK clients

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of our customers rank us ‘as good as or better’ than anyone else in the market

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What Flight Centre Business Travel offer you We believe in people over technology. In providing you the tools to do your job more effectively and efficiently while knowing there is a familiar friendly voice on the end of the phone to help every step of the way. While we have all the usual travel technology such as a user-friendly travel app and 24/7 call centre, we understand that it’s our people and relationships that really make a difference.

Flight Centre Business Travel is part of one of the world’s largest travel companies, Flight Centre Travel Group. With our global negotiating strength this helps your local travel expert to deliver better cost savings to you and add value to your business journey.

THE 5 PILLARS WHICH UNDERPIN OUR BUSINESS ARE; Our people • • •

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A dedicated Travel Expert who truly understands your local business needs We offer a personalised friendly service There is no contract required - we want our clients to choose to book with us because of our consistently high service levels We will provide you with up to 3 expert recommendations with each of your travel requests

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LOC AL EXPERTISE

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DUTY OF C ARE

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REPORTING

We will take care of every aspect of your travel, both in the air and on the ground Your business can tap into the widest range of airfare choices available Working with FCBT gives you access to leisure and corporate hotel rates at over a million hotels globally As part of one of the world’s largest travel companies, Flight Centre Travel Group you get access to global negotiated rates Your travellers can download our new mobile app to connect you and them on-the-go!

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When you call us, you’ll get straight through to your local team so you’ll always speak to a real person Face to face interaction is important to us and we like to visit you regularly We have 26 locations around the UK and in Ireland - you are never far from one of our offices Because we are local we have an understanding of your unique local business needs

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You can receive regular travel alerts and updates where relevant We offer 24-hour emergency assistance - with a specialist team that operate from our Australia offices We have both local experience in managing unexpected situations supported by our global network

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Reporting • We offer you automated monthly reports for straightforward travel insights • In some cases Account Managers are assigned where additional advice is required

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Dedicated flexible service Your dedicated Travel Experts understand your business travel requirements and your unique needs. At Flight Centre Business Travel our people are the foundation of our business - with the experience and knowledge to deliver greater value and a better travel experience.

Your local Travel Expert is part of the Flight Centre Travel Group meaning you get access to the combined experience, training and expertise of over 20,000 staff worldwide.

NO CONTRACT We will never bind you to a contract, unless you require one.

This means we’re only as good as our last booking which maintains our excellent service standards.

SIMPLE FEE APPROACH You will always be fully informed of prices and conditions prior to confirming your booking.

FLEXIBLE PAYMENTS Pay on credit card or account to best suit your needs.

DUTY OF C ARE We can help support your duty of care with proactive traveller tracking and full emergency assist around the clock.

24/7 EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE Operating 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, our Emergency Assistance team are always on-hand to help, wherever you are in the world.

ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT An Account Manager will be assigned to your account when additional analysis and insight is required.

REPORTING To ensure you’re getting the best return on your travel investment, your travel bookings are recorded and regularly reviewed. We will provide you with monthly reporting and recommendations to streamline your travel programme further.

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You’ll receive three travel options within two hours. We answer the phone in three rings and reply immediately to emails, so you’ll never be kept waiting.

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Our people

TRAVEL EXPERTS

We believe in providing you the tools to do your job more effectively and efficiently while knowing there is a familiar friendly voice on the end of the phone to help at any step of the way. While we have all the usual travel technology such as a user friendly travel app and 24/7 call centres, we understand that it’s people and relationships that really make a difference.

We know your time is valuable so we promise that your dedicated expert will answer the phone within three rings and will instantly respond to emails and ensure you receive at least three quotes for every journey.

Having a Travel Expert work with you on your travel business is like having your own personal travel PA. We work with you to make your job easier.

It’s our job to help save you time and money.

PROFESSIONAL We are business people who are working daily with the travel bookers in small to medium size businesses.

DYNAMIC We believe in adapting with the times and being agile in our approach to your business travel.

PASSIONATE We love what we do and it shows. We are passionate about travel and about helping you in your business travel.

She is very professional, but she is also friendly which helps. It is nice to speak to someone who is happy and enjoys their job. That reflects, as nothing is too much trouble for her.

She follows up and helps out.

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GENERAL SERVICE - SARAH TAYLOR

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MOBILE APP The FCBT mobile app keeps you connected at every point along your journey, improving your business travel experience.

CHOICE AND FLEXIBILITY THAT PUTS YOU IN CONTROL OF HOW YOU TRAVEL •

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When travelling for work it’s important to stay in touch. The FCBT mobile app enables you to keep up to date and access your travel information at anytime and from anywhere.

Planes, trains, hotels and everything in between all organised by your dedicated Travel Expert for a seamless experience You can be confident you¹re getting the best airfares available through the relationships and buying power of Flight Centre Travel Group Choice and flexibility is never in doubt when you can access rates at over a million hotels worldwide Receive additional exclusive value adds with our hotel programme Stay connected and easily manage unexpected itinerary changes with our mobile app

Key features of the FCBT mobile app are: • • • • • •

Vishal Vadher is very prompt and professional amazing service

Full itinerary of your bookings Flight and hotel details Disruption and delay alerts Gate, terminal or schedule changes Route and directions planner Nearby rated restaurants, cafes and shops

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GENERAL SERVICE - VISHAL VADHER

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Duty of care Travel with confidence knowing you have support when things don’t go to plan. When you need us, you’ll have access to your local team for on the ground support, as well as our global network and emergency assist teams both here and in Australia.

TRAVEL MADE EASY

The Hurricane hit and we had to evacuate all staff from their office in Tortola to San Juan. We had to find a hotel depending on where there was availability for that many people... Due to the emergency of the situation we did not know who would show up at the hotel or when so Dean and I worked around the clock passing names to the hotel when we had them.

Thanks Flight Centre Business Travel team for your heroic efforts in helping our people.

Travellers and travel bookers are kept up to date with real-time travel alerts that are relevant to your travel. As a global company, there is always a Travel Expert available to assist you when things don’t go to plan.

TRAVELLER TRACKING Where a company has complex traveller tracking requirements, we work with specialist companies whose systems can be integrated with our traveller information and can capture the whereabouts of a company’s travellers at any given time.

TRAVELLER ALERTS Whether it’s a simple disruption due to weather, or something more serious, we have the systems and processes in place to deal with any eventuality.

HARNEYS

Flight Centre Business Travel provides a sterling service that is both cost effective and secure.

With over 26 staff travelling constantly it is a great comfort to have, as you guys have our backs as we cross the globe.

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AMSTERDAM AND PARTNERS

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Simple clear reports

REPORTS Total Transaction Volume vs Comparative Periods

Total Spend vs Comparative Periods £'000 Air

FCBT will provide you with a standard set of automated monthly reports to evaluate travel behaviour and identify opportunities for savings.

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Air

Other

Hotel

Rail

Other

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£700

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£34 £75

£2 618

£1

£261

£1 Title

£500 £400

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£300

£492

£200

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673

536

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£100

• FCBT will provide you with a set of automated monthly reports to evaluate travel behaviour and identify opportunities for savings

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2)Jan 15 - Jun 15

2)Jan 15 - Jun 15

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1) Total Spend by Product 1)Jan 16 - Jun 16

As a global company Flight Centre Travel Group invests in up to date technology and systems to continually ensure we are able to provide you with the information you need to cost effectively manage your business travel.

Hotel

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We believe that behind every good report is a person who understands your business.

At Flight Centre Business Travel you’ll get all the usual cost saving information and a simple easy-to-use dashboard to understand your travel spend.

Whether informative dashboard reports or more enhanced insight is required, we deliver the information you can use to make smart travel decisions.

COMPANY ABC Jan 16 - Jun 16 Summary: Total Travel Spend

1)Jan 16 - Jun 16 Total 2)Jan 15 - Jun 15

2)Jan 15 - Jun 15 Total

Air Hotel Rail Passport & Visa Other Air Hotel Rail Passport & Visa Other

Value £491,595 £74,725 £34,219 £1,247 £11,509 £613,295 £425,500 £260,853 £26,883 £349 £10,289 £723,874

Transaction 673 242 203 10 618 1,746 536 272 105 3 486 1,402

Value Variance 15.5% -71.4% 27.3% 257.2% 11.9% -15.3%

Trans Variance 26% -11% 93% 233% 27% 25%

COMPANY ABC Jan 16 - Jun 16 Summary: Total Travel Spend

1) Travel spend by product type (including fees) Total Spend

2) Total Spend - Fees 1)Jan 16 - Jun 16

1)Jan 16 - Jun 16 Total 2)Jan 15 - Jun 15 2)Jan 15 - Jun 15 Total

2)Jan 15 - Jun 15 £646 £0 £12,418 £9,967 £7,808 £4,162 £971 £0 £477,533 £416,125 £4,638 £5,213 £504,013 £435,467 HOTELS - DOMESTIC ROOM ONLY £15,932 £174,288 HOTELS - INTERNATIONAL ROOM ONLY £58,793 £86,565 £74,725 £260,853 RAIL - DOMESTIC £8,514 £1,308 RAIL - EXTRAS £258 £0 RAIL - INTERNATIONAL £903 £335 RAIL - INTERNATIONAL BSP £24,545 £25,240 RAIL SERVICE FEES £1,569 £1,030 £35,787 £27,913 ANCILARY SERVICES FEES £30 £0 Travel Management Report £33 - Customer : 1000000047 - LXM CREDIT MANAGEMENT - januar 2018 OTHER ANCILLARY SERVICES £7 RAIL SERVICE FEES £108 £0 This Year Top 10 Airlines Amount Tickets % Value Top 10 Air Destinations RECHARGE OVERHEAD COSTS Last Year % Change £11,476 £10,281 16.276,08 0,00 100,00 VIRGIN ATLANTIC 10.741,62 2 76,07 New York/Kennedy £11,647 £10,289 £734,522 0,00 BRITISH £626,173 AIRWAYS 1.758,20 4 12,45 Las Vegas

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AIR SERVICES FEES RAIL SERVICE FEES ANCILARY SERVICES FEES PASSPORT & VISA SERVICE FEES AIR SERVICES FEES RAIL SERVICE FEES PASSPORT & VISA SERVICE FEES

Value £12,418 £1,677 £30 £120 £14,245 £9,967 £1,030 £18 £11,015

Transaction 452 167 1 5 625 372 79 1 452

Value Variance 24.6% 62.8% 566.7% 29.3%

Trans Variance 22% 111%

Air Total Hotel

400% 38%

Hotel Total Rail

Rail Total Other

Jan Other Total

Service fees account for 2.3% of total travel spend.

FebGrand Total

3) Total Spend for all Product Groups (Incl Fees)

1)Jan 16 - Jun 16 Total 2)Jan 15 - Jun 15

2)Jan 15 - Jun 15 Total

Air Hotel Rail Passport & Visa Other Air Hotel Rail Passport & Visa Other

Value £504,013 £74,725 £35,787 £1,367 £11,647 £627,540 £435,467 £260,853 £27,913 £367 £10,289 £734,889

Transaction 1,125 242 343 15 646 2,371 908 272 184 4 486 1,854

Value Variance 15.7% -71.4% 28.2% 272.3% 13.2% -14.6%

Trans Variance 24% -11% 86% 275% 33% 28%

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AMERICAN AIRLINES

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Tickets Avg Ticket 3

3.779,11

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647,00

546,70

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273,35

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467,06

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467,06

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VIENNA INTERNATIONAL

309,20

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309,20

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Athens

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108,80

58,00

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Bukarest

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300,00

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AUSTRIAN AIRLINES

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AEGEAN AIRLINE

58,00

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Jul

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Aug

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Sep

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Oct

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Amount 11.337,32

1.062,76

LONDON HEATHROW

2.636,30

Dec2) Review Period Top 10 Air travellers by spend

Totals TopAir 10 Travellers ADAMS/TONY EASTERN/JAMES GREEN/TERESA WOODS/TONY HUGANDKISS/AMANDA BACON/CHRIS.P SURIYABANDARAS/SHAHEEN

Air Total

1.828,93

16.276,08

4.465,23

TRAVELLER 1 Amount TRAVELLER 2 6.664,81 TRAVELLER 3 5.299,41 TRAVELLER 4 TRAVELLER 5 1.334,06 TRAVELLER 6 1.211,70 TRAVELLER 7 824,70 TRAVELLER 8 TRAVELLER 9 613,20 TRAVELLER 10 180,20

Invoices

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AIR EXTRAS AIR SERVICES FEES DOMESTIC AIR DOMESTIC LOW COST OPERATORS INTERNATIONAL AIR INTERNATIONAL LOW COST OPERATORS

Monthly Spend

1)Jan 16 - Jun 16

Account Managers may be assigned to organisations where the travel programme warrants additional analysis and insight to improve compliance or booking behaviour – this is generally expected where the annual travel spend exceeds £250k

TotalTotals Spend

14.121,08 No of Transactions £43,125 14 Top 10 Hotels Amount £36,118 21 ARGONAUT FISHERMANS WHARF 723,48 £30,446 32 SHERATON BUCHAREST HOTEL 582,00 £27,985 23 £27,953 8 THE LANGHAM BOSTON 428,24 £25,821 45 THE GROSVENOR HOTEL VICTORIA 390,00 £23,723 8 HYATT PLACE CHICAGO DOWNTOWN-THE LOOP 331,28 £22,020 10 £18,876 33 GROSVENOR -300,00 £16,412 11 £272,481 205

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Nights Avg Night

TOP 10 Hotel Destinations

14.121,08 Amount

13 Nights Avg Night

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241,16

San Francisco

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BUCHAREST

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97,00

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214,12

Boston

428,24

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214,12

2

195,00

Chicago

331,28

2

241,16

165,64

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165,64

LONDON

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3) Review Period Top 10 Hotel travellers by spend

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Totals Hotel Product Group Breakdown

16.276,08 TRAVELLER 1 TRAVELLER 2 Amount TRAVELLER 3 14.121,08 TRAVELLER 4 2.155,00 TRAVELLER 5 TRAVELLER 6 TRAVELLER 7 TRAVELLER 8 TRAVELLER 9 TRAVELLER 10 16.276,08

Air Hotel

Hotel Total Totals

TotalTotals Spend

21 Bookings

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£40,000 £35,000 £30,000 £25,000

Total Spend

14000 12000

Totals

10.741,62

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5.370,81

LHR/LAS/LHR

994,00

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994,00

0,00

LGA/BOS/ORD/SFO/JFK

595,70

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595,70

LGA/BOS/ORD/SFO

467,06

1

467,06

LHR/OTP/LHR

346,20

1

346,20

Other Cities

976,50

7

139,50

14.121,08

13

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Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Amount

Tickets Avg Ticket

Tickets Avg Ticket

0-2 days

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395,80

3-7 days

12.660,28

8-15 days 15+ days

Totals

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1.808,61

324,40

1

324,40

1.532,20

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255,37

14.121,08

13

80

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72

4000

Totals Advanced Purchase

Prevoius Year 95 Current Year

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LHR/JFK/LHR

0,00

132,00

No of Trasactions

2.155,00

Top 5 Air Routes

132,00

103

10000

£20,000 £15,000

17 Missed Savings

Review Period Top 10 Travellers by Spend

16000

£45,000

Avg Nightly Rate 2.155,00 £305 Savings £307 £158 146,00 £178 0,00 £209 0,00 £246 £207 £170 £208 £209 £225 146,00

Monthly Spend

18000

£50,000

No of Transactions £10,376 21 Air Savings

by Region £7,684 13 £5,524 17 European Air £4,276 12 International Air £3,761 13 Air Extras £3,685 15 £2,686 8 £2,554 6 £2,284 8 £2,086 9 122 Totals £44,916

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Oct

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Leisure Travel We’re confident you’ll become so reliant on us for all your business travel, you’ll want the same service when it comes to your personal holiday.

PERKS FOR YOU AND YOUR EMPLOYEES INCLUDE: • • • •

Personal service from holiday Experts in over 80 UK stores Tailor-made holidays, tours and flights Exclusive holiday and airfare offers Peace of mind with holiday protection from ATOL

MULTI AWARD-WINNING HOLIDAYS At Flight Centre we don’t simply pull a package deal off the shelf.

Before we arrange your holiday, we take the time to get to know you. Only then do we start to tailor every element of your travel to suit your needs, whether that’s flights, hotels, tours or activities.

Everything is chosen by you based on recommendations from us.

If you’re looking to relax on a beach, our Escapes offer the perfect getaway. And when you want to really explore one or more destinations, let us create a Journeys itinerary unique to you.

Each Journey and Escape includes international flights, transfers and a choice of 4 and 5-star accommodation – just sit back and let us take care of all the details. Plus, you’ll get the services of a Travel Butler after you book to make sure your day-to-day activities are in place, so you don’t waste a second when you get there.

Because we understand how precious your time is – not just when you’re away but before you go too.

It’s why our multi award-winning leisure business was the first travel company to become Good Housekeeping Reader Recommended and why our holiday Experts have received more than 9,000 – and counting – 5-star reviews on Trustpilot.

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Corporate social responsibility

CHARITY OF THE YEAR Each year we enter a relationship with a charity chosen by our staff. In 2017-8 our chosen charity is MIND.

WILDHEARTS

The Flight Centre Foundation is Flight Centre Travel Group’s way of harnessing the collective goodness of our people, industry partners and customers to give back to the communities where we work, live and travel.

Through the profits from their office supplies business, our stationery provider Wildhearts fund loans to empower the poor and help them work their way out of poverty.

RECYCLING Through our relationship with First Mile we are proud to say we are a zero waste to landfill business. First Mile recycle 90% of our waste. The rest will be used to generate electricity.

GREEN ENERGY Flight Centre’s energy contract is made up of renewable source electricity. This comes from a combination of wind, solar, good quality CHP & tidal energy to name a few.

C ARBON OFFSETTING We monitor our carbon footprint and the environmental impact of our business travel. We then offset the carbon emissions from all staff travel. The money from this is invested back in to carbon-neutral projects such as the building of wind farms or solar power plants.

FLIGHT CENTRE FOUNDATION We sponsor a primary school in Soweto, South Africa, through our Flight Centre Foundation. Over our five-year partnership, we’re determined to transform the school and the lives of the pupils. Every pound raised by our staff is matched pound-for-pound by Flight Centre Travel Group. | 19

Building brighter futures through empowered giving

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