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Open Banking (A2A)
To wrap up my review of the main Airline and Travel payments related trends in 2022, next up is Open Banking Payments.‘Open Banking’ addresses a wide range of factors that play a role in Airline payments, to mention a few:☑️ Channel shift, it allows...
Airline Payments – BNPL
With the year coming to a close, I'll be looking back at the main airline and travel payments related trends in 2022. After kicking it off with orchestration, next up is Buy Now Pay Later or #bnpl.BNPL addresses a wide range of factors that play a role in airline...
Airline Payments Solar System
What started in the 2000’s with selling insurance as part of the online booking flow and a redirect referring customers to a hotel booking website, has turned into full retailing and in some cases even into a super app (think AirAsia) where selling seats is just one...
Airline Payment Orchestration
Payment Orchestration Providers offer airlines an outsourced, multi channel, PSP/Acquirer agnostic layer that helps (a.o.) to reduce time to market, to improve business continuity and to create commercial leverage. This "Payment Hub" typically comes with a rules...
A Brief State of Affairs: Airline Payments 2021
It’s now nearly 1.5 years since the pandemic started and the recovery is slowly but surely happening. From a payments perspective, the impact has been clearly visible and it’s now time to focus on how payments can contribute to more streamlined operations, a ramp up...
2020 – The (horrible) year in Review
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...
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