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Southwest Airlines to accept Apple Pay under deal with CellPoint, UATP
Cellpoint Digital and UATP announced a multi-year agreement with Southwest Airlines to integrate Apple Pay as an alternative payment method for tickets and ancillary services like upgrades, meals, baggage check and other services. Cellpoint, a provider of digital...
Southwest Passengers Can Use Apple Pay For Flights
Travel commerce and payments firm CellPoint Digital and the airline-owned payment network UATP are in a deal with Southwest to let customers buy tickets and other services using Apple Pay, CellPoint said in a press release on Wednesday (Sept. 4).“Providing modern...
Southwest Airlines Will Add Apple Pay As a Payment Option
Southwest Airlines will join the roster of merchants that accept Apple Pay, according to an announcement Wednesday from CellPoint Digital and UATP.UATP, the airline-owned payment network, and CellPoint Digital, a travel industry payments specialist, said Dallas-based...
Southwest customers get Apple Pay as payment option
Southwest Airlines flyers can now use Apple Pay to purchase tickets and ancillary products. The rollout begins with the Southwest app and will be extended to the carrier's website in 2020, said Ralph Kaiser, CEO of the UATP corporate card payment network.Southwest...
Spirit Airlines To Roll Out WhatsApp Bookings
Starting next month, customers looking for flights on Spirit Airlines in the U.S., the Caribbean and Latin America will be able to make reservations over text message.Travelers will be able to buy flights and change reservations through Facebook’s WhatsApp starting...
Brave New Payments World
By Kathryn B. CreedyCards still dominate, but corporate travel is discovering innovative ways to pay Alternative payment methods, or APMs, already cover 51 percent of all travel transactions driving airlines and travel management companies to adopt the more than 300...
Duffel Funding Round Adds Fuel To Travel Industry Innovation
Disruption keeps hitting the travel industry, whether via digital payment or commerce, and the latest example of that comes from a U.K.-based startup called Duffel.According to a new report, the company has raised $21.5 million in fresh funding, capital that will go...
Travel payments, part 3: Virtual payment tech and its impact on business travel
One of the key drivers of travel’s evolution from a primarily offline, manually processed business to one increasingly coordinated online has been the transformation of the payments industry. The development of the internet, followed by the birth of e-commerce -...
Travel payments, part 1: Beyond credit cards and cash
By Mitra Sorrells One of the key drivers of travel’s evolution from a primarily offline, manually processed business to one increasingly coordinated online has been the transformation of the payments industry.The development of the internet, followed by the birth of...
Credit History: The Birth of the Air Travel Card
23 May, 2019 in Industry Written by Howard Slutsken“Putting it on plastic” has become second nature, but it all started with airline customers showing their metal.Beginning in 1936, passengers on American Airlines were the first to “buy now, pay later” using a new...
