Amadeus IT Group S.A's board has accepted Mr. Stuart McAlpine's resignation, for personal reasons, as director of the company, effective 14 December 2017. To cover the vacancy created by the resignation of Mr. McAlpine, upon proposal from the Nominations and Remuneration Committee, the Board of Directors has appointed Mrs. Pilar García Ceballos-Zúñiga, effective 15th December 2017, by co-optation method, as independent director. Mrs. Pilar García has performed her professional career working at IBM since 1984, in the area of technology innovation, serving as Executive Vice-President of IBM Global Digital Sales Services, Cloud & Security, until 2016.

The company has extended the current dividend policy to 2017 (pay-out ratio of between 40% and 50% of the Reported profit for the year) and is proposing a 50% pay-out ratio for the year 2017. Accordingly, the Board of Directors has approved the distribution of an interim gross dividend of a fixed amount of €0.48 per share. The payment of the interim dividend will be made effective on January 31, 2018.