Airline Payments – Agency Virtual Cards

Airline Payments – Agency Virtual Cards

During the recent Indirect Sales Summit / World Aviation Festival in Lisbon, I moderated a panel on ‘Consumer payment trends and the impact on B2B payments’, basically covering the difference in payment innovation between B2C (‘pay-in’) and B2B (‘pay-out’). It’s fair...
Airline & Travel Payments – Acronym Bingo

Airline & Travel Payments – Acronym Bingo

The combination of #airlines, #travel and #payments produces quite a lot of acronyms which can be quite confusing when entering this space from both a merchant and a vendor perspective. Some have been around for such a long time (early 70’s!) that even seasoned...
APM Payment Rails & Funding Methods

APM Payment Rails & Funding Methods

It’s now nearly 20 years ago that I started my first implementation of a range of APM’s (Alternative Payments Methods) to support the growth of the online channel for a pioneering global airline. It was a long and steep learning curve, as all existing processes were...
Hotel OTA/TMC – B2B Payments

Hotel OTA/TMC – B2B Payments

After creating multiple infographics about B2B payments for Airlines, this is my first attempt to introduce the main other (and even more complicated) B2B use case in Travel: Hospitality. How are reservations made and what are the links in the chain to move money...