Thursday, January 26, 2006

Time to travel with a new Alfa Bank card!

Alfa Bank, Aeroflot and MasterCard announced today the launch of a new service for travel-lovers, a co-brand card. This service will bring a new range of benefits to Alfa Bank and Aeroflot clients. The service welcome new members to Aeroflot Bonus Programme and helps Programme Members to earn valuable miles every time they use their Aeroflot-MasterCard-Alfa-Bank card for payment.

Aeroflot Bonus Members can use their miles to obtain two types of Travel Awards — Upgrades when they are traveling on business, and Free Tickets for them and their family to make leisure trips. Miles can be earned exclusively for travel on scheduled Aeroflot-Russian Airlines flights and Aeroflot Bonus Partner Airlines flights or through the purchase of applicable service from Aeroflot Bonus Partners, according to agreements between a Partner and Aeroflot Bonus.

Today, this service is available to Alfa-Bank Moscow-based customers, while in the nearest future this co-brand card will be offered to the customers in regions.

«This new co-brand card gives our clients an opportunity to realize their most exciting dreams and wishes while traveling. And it is perfectly well designed especially for frequent traveling Gold and Silver cards holders,» says Viktor Bashkirov, Head of Alfa-Bank's Retail Business and Member of the Executive Board.

«This is an excellent example of the mutually beneficial cooperation between our companies. We see it as a new step to deliver the best quality services meeting the life style of our clients», noted Peter Aven, President of Alfa-Bank, Valery Okulov, General Director of JSC «Aeroflot» and Bella Stavchanski, Senior Vice President of MasterCard Europe in Central and Eastern Europe at the press-conference in Moscow on Thursday January 26.

For more information please contact:

Aeroflot
Irina Dannenderg
Tel. +7 495 752-90-71

MasterCard
Maria Sinitsyna
Tel. +7 495 937-77-10