by Aideen O'Rourke | Dec 29, 2020
The global pandemic disrupted our lives in many ways. The year 2020 is already called an “annus horribilis” and this term definitively applies to the Travel sector and the people that work in it. In this article, before we kick off a hopefully better year, I’ll look...
by Aideen O'Rourke | Jun 11, 2020
A World Aviation Festival Blog – Sponsored by Mastercard The economic impact of COVID-19 has exacerbated existing challenges for the travel industry, while adding significant new pressures. A lack of visibility and predictability over payment flows, long...
by Aideen O'Rourke | Jan 27, 2020
Payment orchestration for airlines, enabling a multi-vendor strategy that pays off “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket”. The first use in print of this saying has been traced to the novel “Don Quixote” by Miguel de Cervantes in the...
by Aideen O'Rourke | Jan 10, 2020
In August of last year I published an article on IATA’s Transparency in Payments (“TIP”) as part of my series about the impact of standards and regulations on Airline payments. It gave a quick look at the B2B channel and the impact of TIP on Travel...
by Aideen O'Rourke | Aug 10, 2019
This KLM 100 picture visualizes how I see NDC when it comes to payments, a brand new front-end working with a legacy back-end… When NDC was introduced by IATA in 2012, the payment component was not considered and frankly it feels like not much has happened...