AirPlus International

Lufthansa AirPlus Service Card GmbH, headquartered in Neu-Isenburg is a provider of solutions for business travel management. Payment, billing and analysis of business travel and managing travel expenses are supported with various products. These mainly include the installation of a central billing account, the provision of credit cards for employees and the use of analysis tools. Its sole shareholder is the German Lufthansa AG to 100 percent.

History

The Company is in the tradition of the Air Travel Card, which has already been introduced in 1936 for pilots and airline staff. The logo of this card is now part of appearance of the AirPlus cards. In 1986, eleven airlines AirPlus Limited Card Services, who continued the brand. From this connection, in 1989 the Lufthansa AirPlus Service GmbH (AirPlus ) was born.

In 1990, the AirPlus UATP card billing of airline tickets for business was and 1992, the Euro AirPlus card was issued as a co-branding with Deutsche Bank and Dresdner Bank. A year later, the AirPlus VISA Card appeared as a co-branding with the Bayerische Landesbank. AirPlus became the first editor of a double card for frequent travelers.

In the VISA VU acquiring services business AirPlus got in 1994. In addition, in the same year, the direct marketing logistics was founded. 1998 saw the establishment of the range card program management with the task to develop and implement concepts for customer card systems.

Founded by Lufthansa AirPlus under a joint venture with the Bayern Card-Services CommuniGate | CommuniGate Communication Service GmbH in 1999 she took on her work. Focus of the activity of CommuniGate was taking care of holders of Lufthansa Card, which was introduced in January 1999.

2000, the brand name AirPlus International was introduced and in 2001 was the spin-off of the area eProcurement (GSE ) together with the German Post eBusiness GmbH trimondo GmbH.

The AirPlus International AG, based in Zurich was founded in 2003. In the same year the airline was announce partnership with the U.S. carrier Continental Airlines. In 2004, a cooperation with Dresdner Bank, then the AirPlus Corporate Card system took over the Dresdner Bank with approximately 18,000 Lodged and Corporate Cards. A year later cooperation with Avis Rent a Car and Europcar.

2007 took place a cooperation for the payment solutions in business travel management in Asia with the Korea Exchange Bank and United Overseas Bank and it was set up a payment solution for climate protection contributions worldwide. With Air China was cooperating in 2008, at the same time a subsidiary in Shanghai was founded.

AirPlus wins the 2009 EPCA Award for AirPlus Meeting Solution and Best Practice Award by the Travel Industry Club for AirPlus climate solution.

Products

The AirPlus Company Account is a central billing account through which all travel expenses of a company can be billed generalized.

By AirPlus Corporate Card Company employees receive a credit card ( a MasterCard for example) can be billed with the typical world-wide travel services.

The AirPlus Information Manager is an analytical tool for a business travel expense management. All incoming data of the central billing accounts and company credit cards and other sources are collected, analyzed and made ​​available to the customer in a summarized form.