Vancouver, Canada – (Oct 2019)–AlphaPay and China Eastern Airlines Corporation Limited (China Eastern Airlines) established a partnership to bring Chinese mobile payment Alipay and WeChat Pay as payment choices, and are now available when booking or making transactions. China Eastern Airline now offers these secure payment options in North America for Chinese mobile payment users.
With increasing numbers of customers purchasing tickets in Canada and looking to use these alternate forms of payment, China Eastern Airlines is very pleased to expand AliPay and WeChat Pay options to bookings in Canada.
Enabling Chinese mobile payment by AlphaPay is an important element of retailers global expansion strategy as they are willing to increase their focus on providing services or products to international customers with their preferred method of payment when purchasing outside China.
AlphaPay provides Alipay and WeChat Pay channels to make it easy for the airline to expand, adding new payment methods as needed without requiring individual contracts, or additional development work. China Eastern Airlines customers are able to transact locally and fly to worldwide.
When enable Chinese mobile payment gateway provided AlphaPay, mobile payment users can simply tap their mobile devices on AlphaPay’s merchants’ end. Merchants can offer their customers the convenience of faster transaction times and increased limits for signature-less transactions. AlphaPay is particularly useful within several merchant categories where speed and convenience are essential, such as quick-service from F&B, hotels, retail, e-commerce, education, supermarkets, car rental, travel and logistics .
ABOUT China Eastern Airlines Corporation Limited
China Eastern Airlines Corporation Limited has its headquarter located in Shanghai. As one of the three major airlines in mainland China, it flies a fleet of more than 430 long-haul and short-haul aircraft with an average age of less than seven years, China Eastern serves nearly 80 million travelers annually and ranks among the world’s top 5 airlines in terms of passenger transportation volume. As an official member of SkyTeam, China Eastern has extended its flight network from Shanghai to 1000 cities in 187 countries via close cooperation with SkyTeam member airlines. Members of Eastern Miles can participate the mileage accumulate and redeem program, enjoy member benefits and use any one of the 525 VIP lounges across the world within all 19 SkyTeam member airlines.
ABOUT AlphaPay
AlphaPay is a major influencer in the borderless payment technology space in Canada. As a forward-thinking FinTech company, AlphaPay has developed and distributed payment technology services to bridge the gap between North American businesses and 1.1 billion users of Alipay, WeChat Pay, and UnionPay through borderless payment technology. For more information: www.alphapay.com
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