Group Travel
We are proud to serve those who serve others, including: individual missionaries, short-term mission groups, and anyone participating in global missions.
Group Travel provides discount international airfare for missions, churches, missionaries and humanitarians travel. Our goal is to provide you with an exceptional value and customer service experience. We focus on efficiently booking discounted airfare and minimizing mission travel expenses. This maximizes your resources to impact the mission project more directly. We combine professional excellence with God’s heart for mission and justice. With decades of experience in the travel industry, we want to serve those who are economically backward, persecuted, refugees and those in utter need. ‘Up and Away’ aims to mobilize people that have a heart for service by providing an efficient, cost effective, professional and consultative travel service. ‘Up and Away’ incorporates a genuine care for people and their stories, a willingness to be open, a radical generosity and a real sense of adventure!
Our Services
Group Travel offers a range of travel services including:
Holy Land and Pilgrimage tours
Mission trips
School groups
Celebrations
One way tickets
Long term tickets
Our values
Why do we do what we do?
WHY we do what we do is our greatest driving factor and it is the WHY that we, as a team and as a business, have fixed our eyes on. We want to be dashing and daring educators who are generous with time and knowledge.
We want to educate – we want to lighten the load of our clients – not aiming for profits from churches, schools and individuals. We want to enable them to get on with the business of saving and transforming lives.
Values
What does this mean?
• Responsiveness
• Listening to individuals (customers, suppliers, peers)
• Communicating openly and freely
• Being open and available to listen and help
• Being constructive and positive in all conversations
• Embracing, empathetic, proactive with genuine care
• To look out for one another and our clients
• Integrity
• Always being ethical
• Being truthful
• Respecting honesty and transparency
• Learning from our mistakes to improve
• Being impartial
• Treating all individuals equitably and fairly
• Treat others the way that we would want us to be treated
• Being consistent and professional
• Accountability
• Understanding requirements of our role and taking responsibilities we are accountable for our actions
• Gaining clarification about expected outcomes
• Taking personal responsibility for resolving difficult problems / issues
• Collaborating – teaching and learning from one another
• Treating all individuals with dignity and respect
• Building trust through consistent actions, values and communication
• Remaining calm and in control under pressure
• Maintaining a high degree of respect amongst the team and with clients
• Still taking time to have fun!
• Leadership
• Our open office environment promotes information sharing
• Appreciating and understanding different skill sets and experiencing within our team.
• Showing initiative to overcome difficult or unforeseen challenges
‘Up and Away’ wants to partner with you to allow you to:
• SAVE MONEY – maximize your resources ‘in country’ rather than on travel expenses
• SAVE TIME – by allowing us to book your airfare and travel needs so you can focus on the purpose of your mission.
"And all this comes with ‘No service fees"!