The busiest days of the travel season are in sight. Millions will trek to their families, possibly grumbling all the while as the holidays fast approach. Millions of corporate road warriors are embarking on their final sprints toward drumming up new business,...

It’s the oldest payments network in the world that you might not be familiar with. Universal Air Travel Plan (UATP) is the oldest payments network in the world — 83 years and counting — and handles an estimated 15 percent of the global air travel market, with 80...

Universal Air Travel Plan (UATP) is the oldest payments network in the world, 83 years and counting. However, unless one happens to work in a big company and have their travel booked through a managed travel department, chances are they’ve never heard of the network....

tnooz Editorial Director Martin Cowen interviews UATP's Dave Holmes during tnoozLIVE@GBTA in San Diego. To watch the interview, click here.          ...

By JoAnn DeLuna Merchants around the world now enable the millions of outbound Chinese tourists to pay for items as they can do at home. These merchants now accept the two most widely used Chinese mobile apps: Alipay and WeChat Pay. These apps "are processing 10 to 11...

By JoAnn DeLuna UATP plans to grow its card network by allowing U.S.-based travel management companies to issue UATP cards, the airline-owned payment network's chief commercial officer, David Holmes, told BTN. The Company Dime first reported the news. "In the past,...

By David Jonas UATP for the first time will allow travel management companies to issue their own payment accounts. The program is starting in the United States as a means to accelerate UATP’s growth in the market. The payment network expects to announce the first TMC...

Reliability and consistency are not the sexiest virtues out there — and yet, when pressed, both consumers and businesses will admit that at base, outside the bells and whistles, what they really want and need more than anything else is to know what to expect. Meeting,...

Say hello to the payments industry’s 83-year-old startup. That would be UATP (Universal Air Travel Plan), the oldest payment scheme in the world, founded by American Airlines in 1936. In fact, President, CEO & Chairman of UATP Ralph Kaiser told Karen Webster in...

By JoAnn DeLuna Airlines Reporting Corp. now can process Alipay transactions made through ARC's 12,262 U.S. retail and corporate travel agency locations, satellite ticket printing offices and online travel agencies. The capability is made possible through UATP's...