Computer City To Offer American Airlines AAdvantage Miles Exclusive Agreement For Computer Retailers.FORT WORTH, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 21, 1995--Computer City will become the first national retailer in the American Airlines American Airlines Major U.S. airline. American was created through a merger of several smaller U.S. airlines and incorporated in 1934. It continued to buy the routes of other airlines, becoming an international carrier in the 1970s; its routes include South America, the AAdvantage program. Beginning November 1, Computer City(R) stores nationwide will offer one AAdvantage mile for each qualifying pre-tax dollar spent. Product purchases, software training classes and certain repairs and installations will be considered qualifying purchases. "This is another step in American's continuing effort to offer AAdvantage members more ways to earn miles," said Bruce Chemel, managing director of American's AAdvantage program. "Computer City is getting the jump on its competition by offering AAdvantage members the opportunity to enhance their ability to earn travel awards simply by buying their computer equipment and training at all of Computer City's convenient U.S. locations." "Computer City has become the pre-eminent computer superstore retailer by offering our customers quality products and innovative value-added services such as our participation in American's AAdvantage program," said Computer City President Alan Bush Alan Bush (December 22, 1900 – October 31, 1995) was a British composer and pianist. Bush was born in London first attending Highgate School and then the Royal Academy of Music. . "Customers will receive AAdvantage miles simply by making Computer City their choice for computer, training and related services." AAdvantage, the first frequent flier program, began in May 1981. Today, the program, with more than 23 million members worldwide, has more than 20 airline, hotel and car rental participants. Other participants include Citibank AAdvantage Visa and Mastercard, MCI (1) (Media Control Interface) A high-level programming interface from Microsoft and IBM for controlling multimedia devices. It provides commands and functions to open, play and close the device. (2) (Microwave Communications Inc. Long Distance, AAdvantage Dining and FTD FTD Financial Times Deutschland (German sister newspaper of the Financial Times) FTD Frontotemporal Dementia FTD Fitted FTD Federal Tax Deposit FTD Flight Training Device FTD Fastest Time of the Day Direct. Through American's AAdvantage Incentive Miles program, businesses can purchase miles to reward customers for choosing to patronize pa·tron·ize tr.v. pa·tron·ized, pa·tron·iz·ing, pa·tron·iz·es 1. To act as a patron to; support or sponsor. 2. To go to as a customer, especially on a regular basis. 3. their outlets. AAdvantage miles earned through these programs can be redeemed exactly the same as those earned from more traditional participants. Computer City is the only computer superstore authorized to offer Apple, AST (AST Computer, Irvine, CA) A PC manufacturer founded in 1980 by Albert Wong, Safi Quershey and Tom Yuen (A, S and T). It offered a complete line of PCs that sold through its dealer channel. , AT&T, Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , Packard Bell, Power Computing, Tandy, U.S. Logic (in the United States) and Canadian Logic (in Canada) personal computers under one roof. A division of Tandy Corporation, Computer City currently operates 83 locations in 46 domestic and five international markets. By the end of 1995, the company plans to operate nearly 100 locations in North America and Europe. -0- NOTE: Computer City is a registered service mark of Tandy Corporation. The absence of a (R) or (TM) in connection with the marks identifying products of other vendors does not indicate the absence of registration of those marks. CONTACT: Computer City Mieke Henderson, 817/347-7624 or American Airlines Al Becker, 817/967-1577 |
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