Announcement - November 28, 2007
From: http://www.travelpress.com
Flight Centre launches sport travel specialist division

Flight Centre North America has launched Flight Centre Active, a specialist sport travel division designed to service the travel needs of individual athletes, teams, coaches and support staff participating in sporting events domestically and worldwide. Flight Centre Active recently partnered with Sport BC and some of their key member Provincial Sporting Organizations, including BC Soccer, BC Athletics and Skate Canada (BC/YT section), to look after the corporate travel needs of their executives and representative age teams. This relationship is the first step in Flight Centre’s commitment to support amateur sport within BC and across Canada. After the successful launch of the new partnership, stage two will extend Flight Centre’s proposition to the member clubs and participants of Provincial Sport Organizations, including a travel plan offering for all recreational athletes, their family and supporters.

Press Release - November 27, 2007
From: http://www.openjaw.com

Flight Centre Active Teams Up With Sport BC

Flight Centre North America has launched Flight Centre Active, its specialist sport travel division designed to service the travel needs of individual athletes, teams, coaches and support staff participating in sporting events domestically and worldwide.

Flight Centre Active recently partnered with Sport BC and some of their key member Provincial Sporting Organizations including BC Soccer, BC Athletics and Skate Canada (BC/YT section), to look after the corporate travel needs of their executives and representative teams. This relationship is the first step in Flight Centre’s commitment to support amateur sport within BC and across Canada.

“At Flight Centre, we believe that passionate, driven and busy people want to deal with kindred spirits who understand the niche requirements of athletes - not the internet or call centres.” says Flight Centre’s Craig Doherty, VP, Strategic Partnerships. “This is particularly true when it comes to organizing team travel.”

Stage two of the new partnership will extend the services of Flight Centre Active to the member clubs and participants of Provincial Sport Organizations, family and supporters as well as recreational athletes.

“Sport BC is very pleased to be partnering with Flight Centre to develop this custom program to support athletes, coaches and trainers across BC”, says Paul Varian, President & CEO of Sport BC. “We embrace a shared services model to create efficiencies with all our members and see this new product offering from Flight Centre as an important opportunity to meet our goal of continued service enhancement.”

In addition to Canada & the United States, Flight Centre Active now has specialist travel consultants in the United Kingdom & Europe, China, India, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa providing international travel and a support network for sporting and leisure organizations.

Sport BC is the federation of amateur sport in British Columbia representing 80 amateur sport and multi-sport organizations.