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Let’s face it – a major factor in choosing your mode of transportation boils down to cost. In Alberta, there are thousands of employees who need to be booked on flights or coaches to get to job sites. Travel coordinators and key decision makers look at costs when they are organizing the transportation for crew rotations. Chartering a coach is a cheaper and smarter. With the option of multiple pickup locations, common airport issues such as parking, are eliminated. Below is an infographic outlining the cost benefits of chartering a coach for large groups.

As a business owner, you’re all too familiar with the expenses that come with running a company. From salaries and bonuses, to rent and electric, it can seem as if the costs of running a business just keep piling up. While there are some things you just can’t avoid paying, you do have the power to reduce costs where you can.

One line item where you can reduce your costs is employee transportation. Using Red Arrow luxury coaches will save you money for multiple business ventures, be it conferences, work retreats, travel for meetings, or daily employee transportation. Here are a few reasons how chartering a bus saves your business money:

If you’re planning a corporate retreat, considering using Red Arrow luxury coaches to charter your staff.  Red Arrow is a leader in event and corporate transportation with ample inventory, and a record for safety. Chartering a bus is a simple and cost-effective way to enhance the convenience and excitement of your work trip.

Remove the hassle of planning how to get to your retreat and charter a luxury coach with Red Arrow. While the benefits abound, here are our top three benefits of using a charter for your next corporate retreat.  

Even though it’d be great for morale, you probably don’t fly your employees first class on business travel. And if you’re weighing all your travel options by checking numerous websites before booking travel arrangements and hotel rooms, you’re already doing better than many travels. As professionals, we understand that saving time is saving money. Below we’ve outlined three ways to save money on business travel in 2016.

Many of our passengers use our coaches for business trips. The low cost and ability to work while traveling to their destination are great advantages to using Red Arrow.

Business travelers sometimes have a hard time getting to all their clients. Some could take a bus to and from Calgary to Edmonton, but getting into town proved to be rather difficult, if not impossible. Without a way to get into town after taking a ride on the coach, there was no way to see business clients for the day. It sure would have been nice to have a car booked and ready to use right when you got off the coach.

Multitasking has gone to a new level — today, professionals are writing emails to one client while on a conference call with another, all the while, trying to find a few seconds between that conversation to consume their lunch. If this sounds like your everyday struggle, we have a solution to the madness! Instead of rushing off to join the parking lot that can be our roadways during rush hour, why not maximize your travel time by traveling via a luxury coach?

Being productive no longer requires office workers to be stuck in the office or tethered to a desk. Instead, you can now work from the road with productivity applications for your phone, tablet, and computer. One of the drawbacks of driving yourself for business travel is that you are not able to utilize these cool productive applications since you need to be focused on the road and making sure you get to your destination safely. Business travellers that want to be more productive while travelling for work have learned that taking alternative means of transportation, like a luxury coach, can help them focus on business and not on driving.

The following three mobile apps can help ensure that your workplace is always just a click away.

Planning a successful conference requires you to see your event through the eyes of an attendee. One of the biggest complaints among travelers is having to plan their transportation. However, you can take away this extra burden and enhance the experience of conference attendees by chartering a shuttle service for routine connections between conference events or even arrange for airport transfers or sightseeing tours. You can even go the extra mile if you have a large number of conference attendees coming in from a nearby city and arrange for a few coaches to bring out of town convention goers to the host city.

Before planning the transportation for your next conference, follow these five tips to get your attendees to enhance attendees experience and to easily get around your conference hassle-free.

Here at Red Arrow we understand that business travelers are used to a certain standard of comfort and professionalism while travelling. That’s why we designed our luxury coaches with the amenities business travelers needto stay happy and productive while they’re on the road.

As someone who travels regularly for business, it’s important that your time spent traveling is used wisely and for business travelers, time really is money. By taking a coach that’s equipped with Wi-Fi and not driving yourself you can stay productive and stay safe while getting some quality work done while on the road. There are many reasons why business travellers love the Red Arrow but we narrowed it down to the top five: