Nov. 11, 2018
CellPoint Mobile is urging Caribbean airlines to embrace direct mobile channels as their main point of sale with customers, in a new blogpost on the telco firm’s website.
James Schildknecht, director, integrated mobile marketing solutions, said in a blog post last week that carriers in the region should embrace direct mobile payment as a means of reducing distribution costs and also to embrace cross-border capabilities, since many of their passengers fly into the region from the U.S., Latin America or other islands.
In late October, CellPoint Mobile announced an agreement with Port-au-Prince, Haiti-based Sunrise Airways, to provide web and mobile payment technology to the regional carrier.
CellPoint, which specializes in travel-related mobile payments for airlines, hotels and ground transit services, plans to integrate its Velocity payment platform into the Sunrise passenger service system and speed the rollout of multiple payment capabilities into the airline’s route network.
Sunrise, offers service from its Port-au-Prince hub to Cap Haitien, Haiti; Havana, Camaguey and Santiago de Cuba; Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic and Curacao. Besides Sunrise, the mobile provider also works with AVA Airways in the Dominican Republic.
The carrier plans to launch new service to Kingston, Jamaica and Providenciales, Turks and Caicos, pending government approval. The closely held carrier said it expects to fly a total of 200,000 passengers this year.
Topics: Carriers / Operators, Mobile Apps, Mobile Payments, Region: Americas
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