APG GA HOSTS 2ND ANNUAL “WORLD CONNECT”CONFERENCE

NOVEMBER 3-5, 2010 IN MONACO

APG Global Associates (APG-GA) successfully hosted the 2nd Annual APG-GA World Connect Conference at the Fairmont Monte Carlo Hotel in Monaco November 3-5, 2010.

Jean Louis Baroux, President and CEO of the APG-GA said, “We are proud to have welcomed 197 of our airline clients and APG-GA network members from 53 countries to the Monaco event.”

James W. Foster, APG- GA COO noted “we invited, at our expense, the CEOs and CMOs of our 239 Airline and Railway customers to a three day conference to discuss how to grow their incremental global business on a “success” basis – increasing sales in markets that are currently lying fallow and not working for them. We explored how successful airlines use a mix of Interline, BSP/ARC and direct Web Sales Channels to optimize revenues - and demonstrated how our “World Program” elements can energize their revenues in each.

Under contract to both IATA and ARC, the APG Global Associates offer to all scheduled airlines (legacy or LCC, IATA members or not) the APG-GA “World Program” - a suite of distribution and financial service tools encompassing sales and marketing representation (APG GSSA); variable cost access to BSPs (APG IBCS and IWCS) and ARC (APG AACP) in the United States; interline electronic ticketing (APG IET); negotiated fare filing services (APG ATPCO FFS) and ticket audit/reporting (APG Air Connect).

Mr. Baroux added, “Our APG-GA “World Program”, uniformly applied in 95 offices in 151 countries, is a holistic approach to outsourced airline distribution and financial management, from “A to Z”, geared to helping airlines extract the last incremental dollar from both small/seasonal “Online” markets and “Offline” markets of all geographical sizes, in all parts of the world.”