Southwest Airlines to accept Apple Pay
Southwest Airlines will introduce an Apple Pay payment option for customers.
It has teamed up with travel payment solutions company CellPoint Digital and the airline owned network UATP to enable Apple Pay transactions for flight tickets and ancillary services.
Providing modern digital payment solutions to our customers is critical. Apple Pay enhances our ability to sell flights, as well as ancillary products using one of the most widely-used digital wallets in North America," said Christopher Priebe, Southwest’s director of treasury, payments and risk.
CellPoint Digital and UATP teamed up last year in a strategic agreement to combined their tech solutions for airlines.
"Southwest is a wonderful first reference for our fast-moving partnership with CellPoint Digital. Our joint solution allows our UATP airline members to deploy the alternative forms of payment they need in each of their markets," said Ralph A. Kaiser, President and CEO of UATP.
UATP is a global payment solution which is owned and operated by the world’s airlines and enables them to accept alternative forms of payment.
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