AAFES piloting gas discounts for card users

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Delores Guenther watches the numbers change as she pumps gas into her Buick Rendezvouz at the AAFES gas station at Hainerberg shopping center in Wiesbaden, Germany, on Thursday. Unleaded gas prices will climb nearly 12 cents this week at AAF ES stations.


AAFES piloting gas discounts for card users
By Matt Millham, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Sunday, November 23, 2008

Customers buying fuel at Army and Air Force Exchange Service stations across Europe will soon be able to save 3 cents per gallon when paying with Military Star Cards if an expanded test of the discount works as planned, according to the exchange.

A pilot version of the discount program has been running at the AAFES filling station at the Hainerberg shopping area in Wiesbaden, Germany, since September.

Starting Tuesday, the pilot will expand to include stations at Ramstein Air Base, Spangdahlem Air Base, Grafenwöhr, Patch Barracks in Stuttgart and Conn Barracks in Schweinfurt, all in Germany.

Barring any unforeseen problems at those locations, the discount will roll out to the rest of Europe beginning the first week of December.

"It was initially tested at one location only because of the specific software we use for the new AAFES/ESSO fuel card program," Lt. Col. David Konop wrote in an e-mail response to Stars and Stripes.


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