SAS and American Express announce muti-year partnership agreement
SAS and American Express have agreed to enter into a multi-year partnership with extensive cooperation within the corporate and consumer market.SAS and American Express announce a multi-year partnership arrangement. The agreement will include co-operation across several products and customer programmes.
The partners will be investing in the development of future projects to provide mutual, positive benefits to both SAS and American Express customers. Both partners expect that the partnership will create significant opportunities for expanding the customer base by offering new and innovative products and extended customer programmes.
SAS will through this partnership further strengthen the position within the Nordic marketplace – both in the B2B and consumer segment.
Robin Kamark, Senior Vice President Marketing & Sales at SAS, state that “In the tough business environment ahead of us it is more important than ever to build on strong partnerships that benefits our customers and create new business opportunities for both American Express and the SAS Group. I am sure that the market will have a positive response to the new products we are about to release. We have great expectations at our side.”
Contact persons:
Robin Kamark , Senior Vice President, Marketing & Sales, SAS
robin.kamark@sas.se
+46 8 797 2424
Stein Bemer, Vice President, Marketing & Sales, SAS
stein.bemer@sas.se
+46 70 997 1548
Philip McGuinness, General Manager Commercial Card Nordics
philip.j.mcguinness@aexp.com
+46 8 429 50 00
Peter Clason, Country Manager Nordics
peter.l.clason@aexp.com
+46 8 429 50 00
American Express Company
American Express Company is a diversified worldwide travel, financial and network services company founded in 1850. It is a leader in charge and credit cards, Travellers Cheques, travel, financial planning, investment products, insurance and international banking.
About SAS
The SAS Group is the leading airline group in Northern Europe, offering air transportation and airline-related services. Scandinavian Airlines and Blue1 are members of Star Alliance™, the world’s largest airline alliance. The Group also includes the airline Widerøe, the partly owned airline Estonian Air, SAS Technical Services, SAS Ground Services and SAS Cargo. SAS EuroBonus, founded in 1992, is the SAS Group’s loyalty program with more than 2.8 million members. In 2007, the SAS Group transported 39 million passengers to over 150 destinations.