About the Air Travel Center

This website is an air travel research facility. Its mission is not to tell you anything or sell you anything. The effort made here is to empower you to learn anything and do anything and buy anything to meet your own needs. When you shop online, you are the travel agent. Using this facility, you can become the world´s best travel agent or just a well informed shopper.

The Air Travel Center is a handicapped accessible, wired and wireless accessible, language translatable, currency convertable, free travelers facility designed for use by any person, business, or government anywhere on earth. The site is published and maintained by a global network of airline ticket consolidators to facilitate travel shopping, research, planning, and purchasing from any location.

Background

The name of Air Travel Center was registered at the Corporation Bureau of the State of Pennsylvania in 1998 after two years and nine thousand person hours were invested in web and wap site development and the pursuit of discount pricing contracts. Development, maintenance and pursuit of discount pricing continue. Nearly 4000, independent, small to mid-sized businesses across the globe hold private airfare for air tickets they purchased, in bulk, for resale to their clients in a niche market. These companies are typically referred to as airline consolidators. Each one has its own database of fares and may operate it themselves or outsource operations to a technology company. Most consolidators make no effort to sell to the general public. The core value of the Center is the evaluation and enlistment of consolidators, and the provision of a user interface (Internet Booking Engine, "IBE") that will access their privately held fares and make them available to any person, business or government on earth.

Business Plan

Provide a free travel facility and juxtapose buying opportunities.

Privacy

Air Travel Center does not maintain email lists or publish newsletters or accumulate personal details. No form of trackware or spyware is used by the principal or advertisers or alliance websites. No hidden effort is made to identify you and leverage your personal details for gain. Javascript and cookies are used to operate those tools and services or process those purchases that you want and only when you want them. All tools, engines, services, content, news, and announcements are published, deployed, hosted, posted or operated online at airtravelcenter.com or over the air via the wireless site at airtravelcenter.ch. The business plan: "provide a free travel facility and juxtapose buying opportunities" is a complete explanation of our enterprise and all that we do.

The only personal information we ever ask for is an email address so that we can respond to your input, request, or question. We do not store or share your email address with anyone. We do not sell your email address. We do all promotions at the web site and the wireless site and in newsreader format online. Come and get it. Or not.

Preference: Even though law might allow the "opt out" form of solicitation when you get spammed and are told how to opt out - we strongly prefer the opt in version where a person must take a deliberate action to opt in before any further solicitation is made - and then, only in the area of specific interest as stated or selected by that person.

When you purchase airline tickets or any other travel product from us or any of our allied vendors, your personal information is collected and stored on certified, secure servers and maintained solely to serve you and for the least amount of time required to serve you. Not one among the hundred plus companies we work with will ever share or sell your personal information. None ever will.

Third Party Data, Cookies

AOL TACODA and Tradedoubler are third party (Non-Personal Information) data collection network working with the Center to help us improve your experience. When you are using the Air Travel Center website, cookies collect certain non-personal information from you, including but not limited to your browser type (for example, Internet Explorer or Mozilla) and your operating system (for example, Windows or Macintosh). In addition, the site will collect information about your browsing behavior, such as the date and time you visit the site, the content areas or pages of the website that you visit (for example, research section or regional section), the ads that were on pages you visited, and other click-stream data, none of which will include personal information about you. AOL TACODA is a member of the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) and is in compliance with the NAI Self-Regulatory Principles which have been developed in collaboration with the Federal Trade Commission. The Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) is a cooperative of online marketing and analytics companies committed to building consumer awareness and establishing responsible business and data management practices and standards. The NAI opt-out link service enables you to opt out of the Tacoda and other data collection networks. AOL TACODA Audience Networks never uses, collects or keeps personal information about people who interact with any of the sites in the network. AOL TACODA is a licensee of the TRUSTe Privacy Program. TRUSTe is an independent, non-profit organization whose mission is to build user trust and confidence in the Internet by promoting the use of fair information practices. See the comprehensive AOL TACODA privacy statement at http://www.platform-a.com/privacy-policy. It also addresses how AOL TACODA handles information of websites that use AMS. Because this website wants to demonstrate its commitment to your privacy, it has agreed to disclose its information practices and have its privacy practices reviewed for compliance by TRUSTe. If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact privacy@tacoda.com. If your inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed, you should then contact TRUSTe at link. TRUSTe will then serve as a liaison with the website to resolve your concerns. Ad and affiliate networks use cookies to show ads based on visits to this and other websites within the network. As a visitor you can choose not to be shown ads selected using interest-based advertising by visiting TradeDoubler's information page for interest based advertising URL.

Cookies: Nearly all websites use a feature of your browser to set a cookie on your computer. Cookies are small packets of data stored on your computer. The site placing the packet on your computer can then recognize your computer when you revisit the site. The site computer uses the cookie to provide services such as auto log on and relevant ad delivery, and to better understand how you are interacting with the site. These cookies effectively enable sites to better customize the site to your needs and interests, so that it can be as valuable to you as possible. A cookie, otherwise known as a browser cookie, is a small text file that is stored on your computer. These cookies that can be read back later, thus allowing the browser to remember specific information that can help simplify and or improve your online experience. Cookies are not software, and as such, they cannot perform surreptitious activities or monitoring; cookies are not spyware or adware. Cookies are typically exceedingly small (less than the size of a file containing a short sentence or two) and take virtually no space on or slow down your computer. If you have visited a participating website and viewed golf-related content, the next time you access a web site, you could be shown ads from a golf equipment company or golf resort, rather than simply a generic ad that is not relevant to you. Or if you have visited several pages reviewing new minivan models, you may later be shown ads from auto manufacturers. This is aimed at improving your online experience. Cookies are only used to recognize a computer visitor and the aggregate historical viewing interests; they never contain or store any personal information. AOL TACODA and Air Travel Center will not collect any personal information from your computer such as your e-mail address, passwords or account numbers. You are always free to decline cookies, but by doing so you may not be able to use certain features on the website or take full advantage of all the website offerings and targeted advertising. You can configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, erase cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set. (Each browser is different, so check the Help menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.)

Security

Because the Air Travel Center is an aggregation and integration of web sites and allied companies around the world, there are many secure servers, in different locations, in different countries. Each server employs 128 bit encryption and each server holds its own certification. When you choose a product or service at any location and you click to the payment page during the purchasing sequence, the security certificate and url for that server can be viewed by putting your curser over any non linked, blank place on the page and right clicking to bring up a menu. Select properties to view the url and certificate. Particular third party verifications for that secure server may be displayed on the payment page as well. Since the Air Travel Center aggregation site airtravelcenter.com is a free facility and open to a world of travelers, a secure server is not needed. When you arrive at a vendor page that will finalize your order by collecting your personal data and payment information, you will be using a secure server that you can verify.

Every company you find at airtravelcenter.com is a member of the International Air Transport Association "IATA" and staffed with persons trained and certified by the Airline Recording Corporation. ARC also trains airline ticket agents and maintains high standards across the industry, across the globe. The Center holds a long standing experience with each and every airline or agency or broker or reseller found on any of its pages. Even when you are shopping an unfamiliar company in a foreign country, you can proceed with assurance that said company has a history of working well with us and of providing reliable and secure and careful service to travel shoppers who preceded you.

Always close your browser
after using a secure server.

If you prefer to give payment information to any agent over the phone or in person - be sure to ask how your information will be stored - how it will be transmitted to the ticketing office and how it will be transmitted to the airline or travel vendor.

The Air Travel Center
is the privately held interest of:

Rosemarie Metz-Brungard
rose@romanceatheart.com
ta | dba
Air Travel Center
on the web at:
http://airtravelcenter.com/
Air Travel Center Wireless
over the air at:
http://wap.airtravelcenter.com/air.wml
over the PDA or web-phone at:
http://airtravelcenter.ch/
over the road at:
1 E Manor Ave Rear
Enola, PA. US 17025-2822
Latitude 40.283884 Longitude -76.931719
Coordinates
40.283884, -76.931719
N40°17.03304, W076°55.90314
contact:
Steve Brungard
steve@airtravelcenter.com
voice:
1-717-732-7222
web site email:
airtravelcenter@airtravelcenter.com
online since 11/22/1998