AGENTS booking AirAsia flights can enjoy lower costs if payment is made via Virtual Account Numbers (VANs).
Under an agreement between eNett International and AirAsia, the airline will add VANs as a payment option in its own agency booking platform as well as accept VANs through the Travelport Travel Commerce Platform. Agents choosing VANs will be exempt from the surcharge currently applied to traditional credit card payments and benefit from a lower fee.
The option will launch initially in Australia in early 2016 and apply only to AirAsia X flights, before being extended to other brands and markets around the world throughout the same year.
“Reducing the cost of booking means agents can use these savings to offer the lowest prices to their customers. It also means we can reduce the cost of processing payments and incentivise agents to book with us, keeping our cost base down and supporting our rapid expansion globally,” said Rayner Teo Kheng Hock, group head of sales at AirAsia.
