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Airline Reward Programmes
Meon Travel Management is particularly skilled at being able to maximise a client’s savings opportunities, either by getting the rebate threshold targets of an existing agreement reduced, looking at additional ‘value added’ options or negotiating a deeper discount.
BA On Business
Included airlines: British Airways, American Airlines, Iberia
Exclusively built for small and medium-sized businesses like yours! Members can:
Collect points which can be used on Reward flights or cabin upgrades.
Access member-only discounts through Meon Travel Management.
Benefit from an extensive choice of flights, schedules and destinations across all three airlines.
Beyond Business
Included airlines: Qatar Airways
Earn rewards for every pound spent and get exclusive benefits. Members can:
Get exclusive benefits including fast track to Gold status and lounge access.
With Dynamic redemption, you can redeem Qrewards against the cost of any flight, no matter how close to the day of departure.
Bluebiz
Included airlines: Virgin Atlantic, Air France, KLM, Delta Airlines
With four major airlines in one programme, earning and spending points is easy.
Bluebiz points are like cash and can be used with Meon Travel Management towards the price of your ticket or to upgrade.
Access priority zone during boarding and get priority in case of flight alterations and waitlists. Guaranteed seat in economy even on full flights.
Free name changes.
Emirates Business Rewards
Included airlines: Emirates
Earn every time an employee or guest traveller flies. Members can:
Earn points on every journey.
Spend points your way, from free flights to paying the fare difference for upgrades.
Etihad BusinessConnect
Included airlines: Etihad Airways
Designed to help small and medium-sized businesses like yours maximise savings. Members can:
Earn miles to redeem on flights and upgrades.
Redeem miles in the Reward shop and more.
Finnair Corporate Program
Included airlines: Finnair
Finnair Corporate Programme is designed for companies of all sizes.
By joining the Finnair Corporate Program:
You are entitled to a 10% discount on Flex ticket prices on long-haul routes in all travel classes.
The discount is given for all booking classes in all our three travel classes: Business, Premium Economy and Economy Class.
HighFlyer
Included airlines: Singapore Airlines
Four membership tiers and milestone rewards for all budgets. Members can:
Enjoy preferential airfares and earn HighFlyer points on flights.
Use points on future travel or redeem them for rewards for your business or your corporate travellers.
Receive priority privileges.
PartnerPlusBenefit
Included airlines: Lufthansa Group airlines: Austrian Airlines,
Brussels Airlines, Eurowings, Lufthansa, SWISS and Air Dolomiti, as well as the Benefit partner airlines: Air Canada, All Nippon Airways, Air China and United Airlines.
For scale and volume, it’s the biggest that you can join, covering more than 10 airlines. Members can:
Choose from a huge selection of awards including free flights, upgrades, seat reservations, excess baggage, VIP services and more.
You can also reduce the CO2 emissions of your company’s flights by converting Benefit Points into Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF).
Receive 4,000 bonus points on joining.
SAS For Business
Included airlines: Scandinavian Airlines (SAS)
Instant discounts and access to different travel passes. Members can:
Earn and spend SAS Business points on all flights.
Receive discounts on qualifying flights to over 130 global destinations.
When travelling SAS Plus or SAS Business, travellers can use fully flexible tickets, Fast Tracks, lounges and Wi-Fi as well as onboard meals and beverages.
Challenges
1. Book online as opposed to offline.
2. Assist in updating their travel policy to deliver compliance and cost control.
3. Arrange self -booking tool training, introduce an online and offline approval process for out of policy bookings, setting hotel city rate caps for key locations.
4. Negotiate contracted hotel rate programme and introduce corporate mileage schemes with preferred airlines to obtain savings via free airline tickets.
Results
Achieved a 95% online adoption rate in first 12 months of trading.
Increased advanced booking notice: 74% of air, 40% rail & 48% of hotels are now booked 15 days plus in advance.
Reduced transaction fee charges by 60%.
Achieved 6.25% savings via hotel corporate rate programme.
BA, KLM & Star Alliance corporate mileage schemes now deliver savings via the utilisation of free airline tickets.
Instant access to dashboard reports detailing travel expenditure, savings achieved & declined within travel policy guidelines. CO2 reporting for environmental & sustainability purposes.
Major efficiencies achieved by travellers booking online via an automated approval process with reason codes justifying why a traveller had to book outside of policy. Offline approval process designed to capture any high touch bookings out of policy delivering cost control and policy compliance.