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The Wonderful World of Travel Payments
Up in the Air, named after the 2009 movie starring George Clooney as the ultimate business traveler, advises Airlines and OTA’s on their payment strategy and other players in the Travel payment value chain on how to reach the next level by defining or fine-tuning their vertical strategy and go to market plan, challenging their product offering & partner coverage, advising on the impact of regulation changes and performing a gap & competitor analysis.
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Recent & Upcoming Events
Industry events play an important role in gathering knowledge, understanding the ecosystem, growing your network and meeting your peers. Meet us at these upcoming events:
NDC - Retrofitting Payments
30 June 2021, Online
Cargo Payments Summit: Modernizing Cargo Payments
27-28 April 2022, online
World Aviation Festival
5-6 October 2022, Amsterdam
The World Aviation Festival is the world’s most important aviation technology conference and exhibition. The event is for the leaders of the world’s airlines, airports and their most senior executives in charge of the latest tech and strategies that are driving the industry forward. In 2022 we will be moving to the RAI in Amsterdam to bring our community of 5,000 global executives together once again to be inspired by 400 speakers over 2 incredible days.
NDC – Retrofitting Payments: Ask Me Anything
14 September 2021, Online
Up in the Air is co-hosting and co-organizing this series of virtual events with Airline Information on “NDC – Retrofitting Payments” to demystify the payment and fraud components of NDC. This “Ask Me Anything” will address the many audience questions from the first session in June that could not be gotten to, as well as address new questions live from the audience. Registration is free of charge.
Airline & Travel Payments Summit
15-16 June 2022, London
The last physical ATPS was also held near London in May 2019. It was themed “Engage, Experience and Execute,” looking at how to embrace the Internet of Things and the Internet of Commerce to improve our payments and fraud prevention. How times have changed! As we climb out of the Covid-19 Pandemic, the focus of global airlines and travel companies is re-finding profitability. This year we’ll look at payments´ role in increasing sales and driving revenues, as well as cutting costs
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ATPS Interview with Paul van Alfen
An introduction to Up in the Air – Travel Payment Consultancy. Interview with Paul van Alfen by Airline Information’s Chris Staab during the 2021 B2B Airline & Travel Payments Summit update
Recommended Read
Airline Payments Handbook 2nd Edition
Thomas Helldorff
A complete guide to payments in the air transport industry
- Understand how payments work in the airline industry
- Set a payment strategy
- Reduce your payment costs
- Optimise fraud and risk
- Select the most suitable products and services from the best suppliers
- Structuring a payment implementation project
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