ACTE Press Release

Immediate Release!

ACTE Chairing IATA Advisory Board

(July 27, 2001, Alexandria, VA) The Association of Corporate Travel Executives (ACTE), an international organization composed of senior level travel management professionals and suppliers of business travel services will chair the International Air Transport Association (IATA) Advisory Board.

In view of ACTE's broad international travel management membership and mission to promote understanding of important industry issues, Ron Wagner, ACTE's president and Nancy Holtzman, ACTE's executive director have been appointed to chair the IATA Advisory Board. The goal of the Board is to oversee an independent and impartial study of proposed changes to the Corporate Client Identification Service (CCIS).

Propelled by the corporate travel management community's expressed concern with the effectiveness of CCIS data privacy and clarity of public information exchanged between corporates, airlines, travel agents, GDSs and other third parties, this study will enable the discussion of implementing revisions to the mutual satisfaction of all parties involved.

Representatives from key parties will be participants of the Board including ACTE Board of Directors: Clive Armitage, senior manager - travel, meetings & fleet purchasing of Astra Zeneca Pharmaceuticals; Marilyn Clifton, EMEA travel manager of Oracle Corporation; Cheryl Hutchinson, senior principal of AMS Corporate Travel and Mark Williams director of travel, americas of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.

Also contributing are Dan Baillie, travel manager of Block Drug Company; Gabriel Eshaghian, manager global airline and car rental programs of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP; Dan Fenech, manager, agency and corporate programmes of Delta Air Lines; Bernard Harrop, director, corporate services-industry affairs of American Express; Scott Laughlin, vice president, strategic partnerships group of Amadeus; Michael Mulvagh vice president, industry affairs of American Express; Frederick Sorensen head of the air transport policy division of European Commission DG VII-Transport and Christine Yasaitis, worldwide deals executive, global dealing of Delta Air Lines. Mike Muller serves as secretary of the Advisory Board on behalf of IATA.

The study is planned to be completed by the 4th quarter of the year. Please refer to the ACTE Web site, www.acte.org for detailed information including board meeting minutes and terms of reference for the project.

Founded in 1988, the Association of Corporate Travel Executives is the only organization wholly dedicated to the science of business travel management with an international constituency. ACTE membership totals more than 2,400, including entities in Asia, Europe, Canada and the United States. The organization is headquartered in Alexandria, Va., and its web site is www.acte.org.