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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 settlement...

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 early 1600's. In today's world,...

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 Agents selling...

  The 8th Airline & Travel Payment Summit Asia-Pacific will take place from August 27-29 in Penang, Malaysia. On the first day of the main program I'll moderate the panel discussion on: "Industry regulations: from NDC to PSD2 and their impact on Payments...

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 since....