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Star Alliance Appoints WNS as Preferred Vendor for Sales Audit and Revenue Protection Services

Dépèche transmise le 16 mars 2011 par Business Wire

Star Alliance Appoints WNS as Preferred Vendor for Sales Audit and Revenue Protection Services

NEW YORK & MUMBAI, India--(BUSINESS WIRE)--WNS (Holdings) Limited (NYSE: WNS), a leading provider of global Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) services, today announced that it has been appointed as a preferred vendor with Star Alliance to perform audit and revenue protection services for its member airlines. Under the agreement, WNS will offer a comprehensive revenue recovery service through state-of-the-art Web-based service called Verifare^TM to protect carriers’ revenue.

“WNS is fully committed towards making this a long-term and successful relationship”

“Due to the rise in member carriers and the subsequent increase in requirements since 2005, Star Alliance has decided to partner with WNS. It has been chosen because of the proven audit expertise and best-in-class technology. With this new association, we look forward to expanding the scope of work and increasing the revenue recovery of all our participating member carriers,” said Christopher Korenke, VP- Commercial, Star Alliance.

"This engagement with Star Alliance is testimony to WNS's reputation as a world-class provider of business processes in the travel and leisure industry for over a decade now. Our Verifare platform is modular and can provide comprehensive auditing of all tickets sold world-wide for an airline. With our qualified and experienced talent pool and strong focus on operational excellence, we will support Star Alliance and its member carriers to increase their process efficiencies, save on costs and enhance recoveries,” said Keshav R. Murugesh, Group CEO, WNS Global Services. “WNS is fully committed towards making this a long-term and successful relationship,” he added.

WNS delivers a complete range of business processes to support the travel and leisure industry, including sales, contact center operations and shared services. It offers end-to-end delivery of over 140 business processes, supported by 6000+ associates.

About Star Alliance:

The Star Alliance network was established in 1997 as the first truly global airline alliance to offer worldwide reach, recognition and seamless service to the international traveller. Its acceptance by the market has been recognised by numerous awards, including the Air Transport World Market Leadership Award, Best Airline Alliance by both Business Traveller Magazine and Skytrax. The member airlines are: Adria Airways, Aegean Airlines, Air Canada, Air China, Air New Zealand, ANA, Asiana Airlines, Austrian, Blue1, bmi, Brussels Airlines, Continental Airlines, Croatia Airlines, EGYPTAIR, LOT Polish Airlines, Lufthansa, Scandinavian Airlines, Singapore Airlines, South African Airways, Spanair, SWISS, TAM Airlines, TAP Portugal, Turkish Airlines, THAI, United and US Airways. Air India, Avianca-TACA, Copa Airlines and Ethiopian Airlines have been announced as future members. Overall, the Star Alliance network offers 21,000 daily flights to 1,160 airports in 181 countries.

About WNS

WNS (Holdings) Limited (NYSE: WNS), is a leading global business process outsourcing company. WNS offers business value to 200+ global clients by combining operational excellence with deep domain expertise in key industry verticals including Travel, Insurance, Banking and Financial Services, Manufacturing, Retail and Consumer Packaged Goods, Shipping and Logistics and Healthcare and Utilities. WNS delivers an entire spectrum of business process outsourcing services such as finance and accounting, customer care, technology solutions, research and analytics and industry specific back office and front office processes. WNS has over 21,000 professionals across 21 delivery centers worldwide including Costa Rica, India, Philippines, Romania, Sri Lanka and United Kingdom. For more information, visit www.wns.com

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