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Door-to-door Stansted airport shuttle service ready for take-off
(Forimmediaterelease.net) Stansted Airport passengers are to be offered a door to door minibus service which takes them straight to their front door. Sky Transfers claims fares on its new 'Stansted Shuttle' will be less than the cost of average airport parking charges, but more convenient.
The Stansted Shuttle, which is due to launch on Monday, December 10, is based on 'shared ride' services which are popular in the United States.
A fleet of new eight and thirteen-seater mini-coaches will operate the new service, which will take passengers between the airport and any address in Essex and some surrounding areas.
The new service will take passengers to or from the airport to anywhere within Essex, stretching roughly from Walton on Sea to Dagenham and from Harlow to Shoeburyness. This could later grow if the mini-coaches prove popular.
The mini-coaches will run seven days a week, departing every 60 minutes 24 hours a day. A timetable will be shown online at www.stanstedshuttle.info or at Bus Stop 30 at Stansted Airport Coach Station.
Passengers should pre-book to guarantee seats or walk up at the airport and join the queue. For journeys to the airport, travellers must pre-book to get picked up at home.
Prices will be £55 return for a Family of 4, £45 return for a couple and £30 for a single person. This will be much lower than the £120 average taxi return trip to the airport and will be much more eco-friendly.
Colin Bland, Stansted Shuttle's head of sales and marketing, told the newspaper: 'Our value for money fares will appeal to both budget and business travellers who are looking for a door-to-door, personal service.'
The Stansted Shuttle is operated by Sky Transfers, possibly the leading International airport transfers service covering over 50 Country’s, 264 Airports and 5245 Resorts&City’s with a fleet availability of over 22,000 vehicles.
Websites: www.stanstedshuttle.info and www.skytransfers.com
Sky's the Limit with go&pay - A Travel Industry FIRST - Online Travel Retailer Offers Cash Payment Option
October 8, 2007 in Travel Related ( ForImmediateRelease.Net ) go&pay, the UK's original cash-based payment service for Internet shopping, is flying high with Sky Transfers, a leading online holiday and business airport transfer service that currently attracts over three million hits per month. go&pay has now been adopted and is already increasing Sky Transfers' (www.skytransfers.com) addressable target audience.
With over 16,000 vehicles at its disposal operating to nearly 300 airports worldwide, Sky Transfers offers customers a truly unique and specialist transportation service. Whether they require an air-conditioned car or mini-van to ferry their party from airport to holiday apartment, or a helicopter or sea plane to whisk them onwards to their yacht or villa, the appropriate mode of transport is always available!
Using go&pay, customers wishing to pre-arrange any form of onwards or return airport transportation can now book on-line and then pay off-line in cash at any one of the UK's 24,000 outlets with a payzone terminal. Apart from offering additional payment choice and convenience to cash-only customers, go&pay also enables those who have had their credit/debit cards declined to complete the transaction with cash.
After selecting their journey, customers simply click on the go&pay option during checkout to generate a unique barcoded invoice which, once printed, reserves the vehicle for three days. Following barcode scanning of the invoice and payment by cash at any payzone payment outlet, a customer receipt is issued. The booking confirmation is despatched by Sky Transfers following confirmation of monies received.
“We are delighted with go&pay,” said Colin Bland, general manager of Sky Transfers, a division of The Holiday Factory. “Within only a few weeks of going live our Sky Transfers division received a surprising number of bookings via the go&pay option. It is also proving a valuable backstop in situations where a card has been declined or passed expiry. go&pay is good for clients and good for business.“
Cash remains a hugely popular payment method in the UK, with three-fifths* of all current payments made using notes and coins. Over six million* consumers in Britain are without bank accounts or plastic cards and a further four million** prefer not to divulge personal account details over the Internet. Now these 10 million consumers are no longer excluded from joining the online shopping revolution.
Other key benefits to retailers offering go&pay include lower processing charges compared to those typically levied by banks for online card transactions and a service which is both easy and inexpensive to implement on merchant sites, requiring only minimal IT support.
* Source APACS
**Office for National Statistics
Note: go&pay (www.goandpay.com) is trademark protected and the property of allpay.net
About allpay.net – the company behind go&pay
With over 750 clients and over 1700 payment schemes in operation, allpay.net is the UK's leading end-to-end 24/7 payment and revenue collection service provider for the public and private sectors.
Over 45,000 outlets now accept payments on allpay.net's electronic swipecard network with other payment methods including the Internet, telephone (IVR), Direct Debit and barcoding. For more information visit www.allpay.net.
For further information: Shelley Eyers / Annie Neesham allpay.net +44 (0) 1432 852 424 shelley.eyers@allpay.net annie.neesham@allpay.net Media Contacts: Nigel Parker / Dulcie Mclerie STRATEGIC PR +44 (0)1494 434 434 Nina Bland Sky Transfers +44 (0)1268 459576
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Launch of SkyTransfers.com Exceeds Growth Expectations
( BASILDON: June 6, 2007) Sky Transfers, the newest site for automated travel transfer bookings in the UK, announces that it has already seen significant growth in its offering to consumers and the travel trade. On its launch on January 4, 2007, SkyTransfers.com offered two airports. After three months, SkyTransfers.com confirms that figure now totals 34 countries, 135 airports and 2854 resorts and cities.
The booking system for SkyTransfers.com was written specifically by a team of dedicated software specialists to enable bookings to be processed automatically. Confirmations are instant and emailed directly to the nominated email address. The range of vehicles now includes executive cars such as Mercedes, Porsche Cayenne’s and Rolls Royce’s and even helicopters for door-to-door service. SkyTransfers.com aims to offer the complete solution for budget and luxury travellers to most destinations in the world.
Colin Bland of SkyTransfers.com comments, “We are very pleased with the success to date of SkyTransfers.com. We intend to offer a wider range of vehicles, better prices when the same vehicle is offered, and soon, most airports. The response from both consumers and the travel trade has been very positive.”
Sky Transfers arranges airport transfers for any party size including private taxi transfers, group minibuses, and luxury and budget options. With a fully automated booking service and confirmation vouchers emailed direct to the customer, bookings can be generated easily and in less than a minute. SkyTransfers.com was formed to provide resort transfers to consumers and for dynamic packaging to the travel trade. It presents a high service value offering, and contracts companies and staff directly in resorts and cities worldwide. Further information on Sky Transfers is available at www.skytransfers.com or by email to media (at) skytransfers.com.
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