Charge & Private Cards

Getting paid is what its all about. And there are many ways in which you can be paid. Multiple payment payments, currencies, channels, providers and issues to be managed.

• Charge Cards:

Always popular in the airline sector, charge cards are almost identical to the credit card processing. Typically an airline will contract directly with the charge card organization - Diners, AMEX, UATP etc. and processing can be completed directly or possibly via the financial institution that is processing your global cards. Currency conversion is not as common with charge cards.

• Privately Issued Cards:

In some airlines the travel agent remains a very significant channel via which bookings and ancillary service are sold. In the normal course these transactions will be collected via BSPs or ARC, assuming the payment method has gone that route.

It is also possible that an airline could issue its own private closed loop card to travel agents on either a pre-paid or post paid basis. Such an approach avoids any percentage based fees and it also attractive to travel agents who complete high volumes of online bookings on an airline?s web site.