CellPoint Digital, the leading provider of payment solutions to the airline industry and a global pioneer of Payment Orchestration, today announced a new partnership with Air Europa, a member of the SkyTeam Alliance. Leveraging CellPoint Digital's newly launched, transformative Payment Orchestration Platform, this collaboration will deliver comprehensive solutions to help Air Europa optimize its payments across the global regions it serves and enable the carrier to process a broader range of alternative payment methods (APMs) to better meet its passengers' needs.

Air Europa is a fast-growing, dynamic airline with a substantial geographic presence offering short, medium and long-haul flights across three continents. With a strategic vision to expand connectivity between Europe and the Americas, as evidenced by its fleet expansion plans and increased service frequency to Latin America and the Caribbean from its Madrid hub, Air Europa needed a forward-looking approach to payments that prioritized optimized transaction routing, seamless cross-border payments, while offering a wide variety of payment options to international and domestic passengers.

"As Air Europa enters its next growth chapter, it is crucial for the carrier to have a robust payments infrastructure that will support and nurture this expansion," said Kristian Gjerding, CEO at CellPoint Digital. "Our new Payment Orchestration Platform, with Air Europa as one of its first clients, will help Air Europa optimize its payment strategy, increase the number of APMs it supports, and expand its range of acquirers, giving the airline additional control and visibility of its financial health. As the leading provider of payment orchestration to the airline sector, we are very well-positioned to offer a hands-off, tailored solution and connect Air Europa to the acquirers and APMs needed to expand and improve the passenger experience."

Air Europa's Path Towards Sustainable Growth

CellPoint Digital's Payment Orchestration Platform, which will complement Air Europa's internal orchestration system, routes transactions intelligently to boost acceptance, simplifies and centralizes back-end reconciliation, integrates over 160 global APMs, and easily accommodates multiple PSPs and acquirers. The platform also considers the pricing, processing and acceptance currency and geographical location of each processor, increasing the success rate of transactions and reducing per-transaction costs for Air Europa.

Yago Casasnovas, Head of Payments, Fraud Prevention and Distribution, added, "As a disruptor airline targeting rapid international expansion, we need a payments partner with a sophisticated understanding of air travel transactions and payment processes. CellPoint Digital is that partner, and their Payment Orchestration platform enables us to offer travelers a fully digital experience onboard and a simpler booking experience.

In addition, Air Europa will be one of the launch clients on CellPoint Digital's new Payment Orchestration Platform, showcasing the company's commitment to innovation and the future of seamless, global payment solutions.