United Airlines, UnionPay International and Planet Payment Announce the Launch of UnionPay Credit Card Acceptance for eCommer...
January 24 2017 - 9:00AM
In order to meet the needs of Chinese travelers, United Airlines,
UnionPay International and Planet Payment, Inc. (NASDAQ:PLPM) today
announced the launch of UnionPay Credit Card acceptance with United
Airlines for reservations and other ticketing purchases online and
through call centers
UnionPay International provides high quality, cost effective and
secure cross-border payment services to world's largest cardholder
base and ensures convenient local services to a growing number of
global businesses. It is a subsidiary of UnionPay, a Chinese
financial services corporation which provides bank card services
and a major card scheme in mainland China. Planet Payment is a
leading provider of international payment processing and
multi-currency processing services.
According to the World Tourism Barometer published by the United
Nations World Tourism Organization, China led international
outbound tourism in 2015 with the largest population of overseas
tourists -- 120 million Chinese citizens traveled overseas in 2015,
spending $194 billion across the world.1
"As a global airline with customers across the world, United
places tremendous value in providing customers with easy, flexible,
and secure options for payment when choosing to fly with us.
UnionPay credit card acceptance, with the help of Planet Payment,
gives our valued customers the ability to use UnionPay card
products directly with United," said Praveen Sharma, VP Loyalty at
United.
Shuan Ghaidan, Director of Products of UnionPay International
said, "We are very glad to cooperate with United Airlines and
Planet Payment and believe this cooperation will offer greater
convenience to our customers. We are devoted to providing safe and
convenient cross-border payment services for our global
cardholders."
"We are excited to announce the launch of our UnionPay solution
with United Airlines," said Paul Levine, Senior Vice President,
Planet Payment. "Our goal is to broaden payment acceptance for
UnionPay cardholders around the globe."
The first phase of this launch supports the acceptance of
UnionPay Credit cards with acceptance of UnionPay Debit cards
expected to follow at a later date.
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About United Airlines United Airlines and
United Express operate an average of 5,000 flights a day to 336
airports across six continents. In 2015, United and United Express
operated more than 1.5 million flights carrying more than 140
million customers. United is proud to have the world's most
comprehensive route network, including U.S. mainland hubs in
Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, New York/Newark, San
Francisco and Washington, D.C. United operates more than 715
mainline aircraft, and this year, the airline anticipates taking
delivery of 21 new Boeing aircraft, including 737 NGs, 787s and
777s. The airline is a founding member of Star Alliance, which
provides service to 192 countries via 28 member airlines.
Approximately 86,000 United employees reside in every U.S. state
and in countries around the world. For more information, visit
united.com, follow @United on Twitter or connect on Facebook. The
common stock of United's parent, United Continental Holdings, Inc.,
is traded on the NYSE under the symbol UAL.
About UnionPay International
UnionPay International (UPI) is a subsidiary of China UnionPay
focused on the growth and support of UnionPay's global businesses.
In partnership with more than 1000 institutions worldwide, UnionPay
International has enabled card acceptance in 160 countries and
regions with issuance in more than 40 countries and regions.
UnionPay International provides high quality, cost effective and
secure cross-border payment services to the world's largest
cardholder base and ensures convenient local services to a growing
number of global UnionPay cardholders and merchants.
About Planet Payment Planet Payment is a
leading provider of international payment processing and
multi-currency processing services. We provide our services in 23
countries and territories across the Asia Pacific region, North
America, the Middle East, Africa and Europe, primarily through our
70+ acquiring bank and processor customers. Our point-of-sale and
e-commerce services help merchants sell more goods and services to
consumers, and together with our ATM services are integrated within
the payment card transaction flow enabling our acquiring customers,
their merchants and consumers to shop, pay, transact and reconcile
payment transactions in multiple currencies, geographies and
channels.
Planet Payment
Contact: Jill Raftery
Telephone: 516.941.1858
email: jraftery@PlanetPayment.com
www.PlanetPayment.com
United Airlines
Phone - (872) 825-8640
Email - media.relations@united.com
UnionPay International
email: UPIPR@unionpayintl.com
www.unionpayintl.com
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