Emirates to use MasterCard Gateway Service online payment platform

Airline Industry Information, May 29, 2007

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MasterCard Worldwide, a provider of payments solutions, has announced that Dubai-based airline Emirates is to use the MasterCard Gateway Service (MiGS) to provide an e-commerce payment gateway, ensuring secure online ticketing and online payments in India and for other Emirates products.

The companies have signed a Payment Service Provider Agreement to provide a single online payment platform. MiGS is a turnkey payment solution for large and small merchants that require a way to process payments for customers across all acceptance channels and for all global credit cards.

MiGS will reportedly enable Emirates to conduct safe and secure online transactions for a variety of payment types, including all global brands of credit cards. MiGS also handles multi-currency processing, supports multi-country operations and includes fraud protection mechanisms.

The MiGS platform will be applied to Emirates' core airline online ticketing services for India, as well as to other streams of business, such as Emirates Hotels and Resorts. All transactions will be processed through the MasterCard network.

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