Wirecard offers an international and fully integrated portfolio of solutions – from one source and via one platform. We accommodate the individual customer needs from the airline and travel industries with flexibility and high efficiency.
Our range contains numerous industry and customer-specific payment and risk management systems. This includes BSP special solutions for airlines as well as the incorporation of payment solutions in booking systems and mid/back office systems, and integrated risk management to avoid defaults and subsequent processing costs.
Today Wirecard AG is able to provide extensive risk management systems and highly specialized modules to protect against fraud due to its global market penetration. This way customers from the travel industry can benefit from the experiences of the Wirecard group and forward their own international growth.
The high standing of Wirecard AG in the travel and airline industries is reflected in our customer portfolio. Malaysia Airlines, Jet Airways and Turkish Airlines are only a few of the numerous new customers we have gained recently in the international airline market. In addition, we were able to expand on our cooperation with tour operators such as Vtours GmbH and TUI plc.
Added value for the travel industry
The Lebanese Middle East Airlines (MEA) has chosen the entire payment and acquiring solution of Wirecard AG. Since the beginning of June 2008, the full solution for payment processing with integrated risk management for all distribution channels, from the counter to the Internet to the BSP interface of IATA (International Air Transport Association) is in use. Adib Chreif, Head of Information Technology at MEA, said: „For us, among other things the determining factor was the extensive reconciliation across all systems. A fast and flexible implementation convinced us that we had chosen the right technology service provider.”
The largest private Indian airline, Jet Airways, relies on the IATA BSP payment solution of Wirecard AG. V. Janakiraman, Head of Revenue Accounting at Jet Airways, stated: „A crucial factor in our decision was the high reputation that Wirecard enjoys in the airline industry. We chose Wirecard AG because several of our partner airlines had already been impressed by the efficiency and performance of this European payments provider.”
Malaysia Airlines, Malaysia’s national airline, uses the Wirecard AG payment solutions to process its online airfare sales. Dr. Amin Khan, Senior General Manager at Malaysia Airlines, said: “The products and solutions of Wirecard AG support Malaysia Airlines in optimizing its financial processes on a global level.”