Airlines process roughly $1 trillion in payments a year and spend about $22 billion doing it, according to a 2024 Edgar, Dunn & Company study cited in IATA’s June 2026
For most of the last century, an airline seat had a price you could look up. A fare class, a booking code, a number on a chart. That model is
When airspace over the UAE and Qatar closed on February 28, 2026, the immediate story was operational. Flights were cancelled, hubs went quiet, and passengers were stranded. Four months later,
Air India will become the first airline in India to offer UATP accounts to businesses and travel agencies, UATP announced this month. On the surface, it looks like a conventional
A “full refund” is a nominal claim. In currencies under pressure, it is not necessarily an economic one. TDN looks at a payments gap the industry doesn’t have a shared
The February 2026 strikes on Gulf airports created an immediate operational crisis. Hubs closed. Aircraft were grounded. Thousands of flights were cancelled. Six months later, the deeper problem is still
Etihad Airways announced on 19 August 2026 that it has become the first airline to accept Jaywan, the UAE’s national domestic card scheme, as a payment method on etihad.com. UAE
UATP has named dLocal as the newest payment processing partner for its UATP One merchant services platform, aimed at expanding local currency payment acceptance for airline merchants in emerging markets.
Every few weeks, another announcement lands in the same bucket. A fintech joins a payment network. A card scheme signs a co-branded deal. Each is covered, reasonably, as evidence that
The association’s new Airline Payment Framework puts numbers to something the industry has known for years. Whether African carriers act on it is a different question entirely. IATA published a
