Travelers working from any one of Regus’ 1,200 business centers can earn extra miles

Regus and American Airlines announced an agreement that gives members of the American Airlines AAdvantage® loyalty program the opportunity to earn AAdvantage® miles when booking Regus’ full-service and virtual offices, meeting rooms or Businessworld services anywhere in the world.

“One of the best features of the AAdvantage program is the ability for members to earn miles through everyday activities – including work”

Under the new agreement, AAdvantage® members will earn seven miles per dollar spent on new virtual office or Businessworld sales and on day office, meeting room or video communications bookings. Five AAdvantage® miles will be awarded to members per dollar spent on new full-time office agreements at any Regus location.

The global footprints of both organizations (Regus & American Airlines) enable AAdvantage® members to easily locate and work from any one of Regus’ fully equipped and staffed business centers across the world. (Have you expanded your business operations abroad? click here to find out why you should, especially now that both Regus and American Airlines have made it easier)

As an added benefit of the new agreement, American Airlines will provide AAdvantage® elite status members with a Regus Businessworld Gold card. The membership program grants them unlimited access to Regus’ global network of business lounges.

“We are very excited to launch our partnership with American Airlines and will continue to look for innovative ways for AAdvantage® members to earn more miles with Regus”

“Many of Regus’ customers are already AAdvantage® members and are familiar with our services. This new agreement will make business travel a seamless experience for American Airlines’ passengers because they can now tap into our network anywhere in the world and be guaranteed a proper place to work or conduct meetings.”

—Regus Director of Partnerships Michael Haas.

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For more information and a listing of AAdvantage program participating companies, visit www.aa.com/aadvantage

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Regus business lounge opens at Shell motorway station, an innovative pilot for mobile workers.

Shell and Regus announce the trial of a joint programme that could see Regus business lounges open at Shell petrol forecourts on motorways across Europe. The business lounges are designed specifically to meet the needs of a growing number of mobile workers.

The first business lounge has opened at a Shell station just south-west of Paris, on the A10 autoroute, at the Limours-Janvry service station. Drivers can drop into the lounge to:

• use reliable high-speed internet;
• scan, copy or fax documents;
• print from their laptop, smartphone, Blackberry or tablet;
• get help from a virtual concierge;
• arrange courier deliveries; and,
• combine stopping for fuel, food or forecourt services with using professional work facilities.

To access the Regus business lounge, they simply buy a day pass at the Shell checkout or swipe a Regus Businessworld card. The Businessworld programme offers members drop-in access to more than 1,200 Regus business centres around the world.

The lounge will be an addition to the existing range of high quality fuels and lubricants and other forecourt services such as the shop.

“This alliance allows Shell and Regus as market leaders in their respective fields to come together to better serve our customers. We know that many of our customers are working on the move and are excited to explore offering them accessible and innovative working options as part of our existing network.

—Istvan Kapitany, Vice President Shell Retail Europe

“Research shows there are around 1 billion mobile workers globally. Though they communicate and work using smartphones, tablets and laptops, they miss access to a professional place to work, meet or think where there is easy access to state of the art business facilities. By opening Regus business lounges at motorway stations, Shell and Regus are bringing vibrant business hubs right to the roadside. As a result, many people will be able to work more productively in a professional business environment while on the move.”

—Mark Dixon, CEO of Regus

Have you tried one of our business lounges at a Shell motorway station?

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Our CEO Mark Dixon speaks to CNBC about Regus’s growth in China. Beneath you can find a full transcript of the interview. For more information on Regus please click here:

Reporter 1: So you are in the business of outsourcing the workplace you provide virtual offices to people who don’t want the over-head and expense of maintaining an office. Which parts of the world are you finding this is most popular in?

Mark Dixon: It’s popular all over the world we’ve just opened up our 94^th country this week, but where we are seeing a lot of growth it is in continental Europe and also Asia.

Reporter 1: Tell us how this idea is going over in China.

Mark Dixon: Well in China we are seeing a lot of companies that are looking to expand nationally and do so at a low cost and keep flexibility in their fixed cost base. So, our virtual offices and mobile work platforms help companies manage this.

Reporter 1: But we do have growth slowing in China, businesses have said that they have started to scale back some what; how do you expect that to impact your bottom-line?

Mark Dixon: We see any slowdown really as a growth opportunity, for two reasons. First it’s easy for us to partner with real estate owners, to expand the network across a country like China. In addition we’ll see more companies looking to embrace flexible working as a way to cut their costs. So any slow down is really a double-edged sword.

Reporter 2: Mark, did I hear you correctly when you said there is a lot of growth in continental Europe, how are you managing that?

Mark Dixon: Well…cautiously would be the word I use to describe that. Again, in Europe we are seeing an explosion in demand for mobile work, and we are setting up infrastructure to cope with that. In continental Europe for example we signed a deal last week with the SNCF the French National Railways, to open up drop-in business centres on many railway stations in France, and we other railway companies coming behind that, other national railway corporations. What companies are looking to do is really cater to a worker that’s changed his and her method of working, they are using technology, they don’t require a fixed office, a fixed workplace each and everyday in the same place.

Reporter 1: Mark, give us a sense of which sectors are utilizing your services the most, which offices are going mobile?

Mark Dixon: It’s really across the board, but it starts with companies that have large sales forces, which have large field operations, they’re the obvious candidates for this type of application. They came originally from the tech industries, but now its really across all industries with companies like GlaxoSmithKline, Google, Twitter, many companies embracing this and growing with it. What we are seeing growth in now, again, in Europe, a more government use, where governments are looking to cut costs, to outsource, looking to reduce a fixed cost-base and getting their workers more mobile.

Reporter 1: All the way from blue-chips, to governments and small businesses, thank you so much Mark Dixon, joining us there from Regus.

To view some case studies on companies that have gone mobile with Regus, visit here.