September 19 2024, (Washington, D.C.) – Airlink is proud to announce that Amadeus, the technology company that powers the global travel and tourism industry, has officially joined Airlink as its newest Gold Sponsor. As a global nonprofit organization, Airlink exists to help remove the cost of air transportation as a barrier to NGOs responding to disasters and other humanitarian crises.

Amadeus is committed to making travel a force for social and environmental good. It does this through innovative technology solutions that empower the travel sector by creating a connected, sustainable and traveler-centric ecosystem to make the travel experience better for everyone.

As a Gold Sponsor, Amadeus will support Airlink’s mission of delivering critical aid to disaster-affected communities by providing free airlift and logistical solutions to a network of 200+ nonprofit partners. Airlink will become a global partner in Amadeus’ Community Impact Program. Amadeus’ sponsorship will help ensure that life-saving aid reaches communities around the world that need it most.

‘We are thrilled to welcome Amadeus as a Gold sponsor and thought leadership partner,” says Steven J. Smith, President & CEO of Airlink. “Amadeus’ strong commitment to corporate social responsibility and its vision of travel as a force for good aligns perfectly with Airlink’s mission of delivering the right aid to the right place at the right time. We’re grateful for its support and are excited to welcome an influential partner like Amadeus from within the travel industry to our growing list of sponsors. We are enthusiastic about the opportunities ahead and look forward to collaborating on initiatives that will benefit communities in need even more.”

“At Amadeus, we believe that travel is a force for good. We are proud to announce our partnership with Airlink, which is part of our ongoing commitment to supporting destinations and the communities where we operate. Through our Amadeus Community Impact Program, we are committed to helping vulnerable groups and those most at risk, with the clear intention of ensuring that no one is left behind. We believe that, together with organizations like Airlink, we can make a significant impact. Thanks to its work delivering critical aid to communities in crisis, we can make a difference together,” comments Heddy Ring, Global Head of Community Impact, Amadeus.

This collaboration marks a pivotal moment for both organizations, merging their aviation and travel expertise with their collective resources to ensure that aid supplies and emergency personnel reach some of the world’s most vulnerable communities impacted by sudden-onset and protracted humanitarian crises, ultimately improving lives worldwide.

About Airlink:

Airlink is a global humanitarian nonprofit organization delivering critical aid to communities in crisis by providing free airlift and logistical solutions to vetted nonprofit partners, changing how the humanitarian community responds to disasters worldwide. Its network includes over 200 aid organizations and over 50 commercial and charter airlines. Since its inception in 2010, Airlink has flown over 12,000 relief workers and transported nearly 17 million pounds of humanitarian cargo, directly helping over 59 million people impacted by natural and man-made disasters. For more information, please visit airlinkflight.org or follow us on LinkedIn and Instagram.

About Amadeus:

Amadeus makes the experience of travel better for everyone, everywhere by inspiring innovation, partnerships and responsibility to people, places and planet.

Our technology powers the travel and tourism industry. Inspiring more open ways of working. More connected ways of thinking, centered around the traveler. Our open platform connects the global travel and hospitality ecosystem. From startups to big industry players and governments too. Together, redesigning the travel of tomorrow.

We are working to make travel a force for social and environmental good. A collective responsibility to protect and improve the people and places we visit, ensuring travel continues to make a positive contribution to our world.

We apply innovation to meet new needs, to solve real challenges. Our truly diverse global workforce, made up of 150 nationalities, is passionate about travel and technology.

We are an IBEX 35 company, listed on the Spanish Stock Exchange under AMS.MC. We have also been recognized by the Dow Jones Sustainability Index for the last 11 years.

Amadeus. It’s how travel works better.

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