British Airways giving free business travel

At the recent National Business Travel Association meeting in California British Airways (BA) launched the second phase of their Face to Face campaign. In 2010 BA will offer 100 small to medium size businesses the chance to fly for free across their entire network.

BA has partnered up with Marriot, Regus Office Services and Canon to offer small/medium businesses the complete package of products to help them along in 2010. All the winners of Face to Face can expect to receive a total of 10 roundtrip Club World transatlantic tickets, which they can then use at any time next year.

One of the partners Marriot will also give each winner a £1,000 voucher that can be used at its Marriot Coutyard brand and Regus will be donating five Businessworld gold cards for instant access to airport lounges across the world.

“Connecting people globally is our number one objective and we’ve long known the key to building a successful long term business partnership is through face-to-face meetings,” said BA’s executive vice president for the Americas, Simon Talling-Smith.

BA have already given away almost 1,000 seats in the first part of the Face to Face campaign earlier this year, but see say they still see the need to give more away.