Offers additional convenience for international customers, supports airline’s global growth.
MONTREAL – Air Canada announced that Alipay and WeChat Pay as payment choices are now available when booking on the carrier’s North American and Hong Kong websites. Air Canada is the first Canadian airline and is amongst the first North American carriers to offer these secure payment options in North America.
“Since last fall, our customers around the world have been able to use their preferred local method of payment when purchasing flights on aircanada.com in their home country or region, including Alipay and WeChat Pay options in mainland China. With increasing numbers of customers purchasing tickets in North America and Hong Kong looking to use these alternate forms of payment, we are very pleased to expand AliPay and WeChat Pay options to aircanada.com bookings in Canada, the USA and Hong Kong. This is another important element of our global expansion strategy as we increase our focus on providing our international customers with their preferred method of payment when purchasing outside mainland China,” said John MacLeod, Vice President, Global Sales and Alliances at Air Canada.
Air Canada processes alternative and local payment methods via a single gateway. This makes it easy for the airline to expand, adding new payment methods as needed without requiring individual contracts, or additional development work. Air Canada’s customers are able to transact locally on aircanada.com using iDeal in the Netherlands, Sofort and Giropay in Germany, Bancontact in Belgium, Poli in Australia, Alipay plus WeChat Pay in mainland China, Canada, the USA and Hong Kong.
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