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Joint effort: Novo Ivc and Wingspeed Corporation provide inflight credit card authorisation |
IRELAND. Novo Ivc and Wingspeed Corporation today announced that they have developed a joint solution to provide inflight credit card authorisation to airlines.
The solution, which leverages the Wingspeed XFIA communications and computing platform and the Novo Ivc Point-of-Sale system, will allow airlines to conduct real-time inflight credit and debit card authorisations. It will also allow them to conduct transactions using the airlines’ loyalty programme cards.
Together this will open up an array of revenue opportunities for the airlines, the companies said in a joint statement.
“The solution will address a need that the market has clearly articulated to us and will bring a number of significant benefits,” said Novo Ivc Managing Director Tim Clifford. “It will mean lower bank charges, reduced fraud and the opportunity to offer higher value goods for sale onboard, and together these benefits represent a compelling return on investment.”
“We are excited at partnering with Novo Ivc who are an industry leader in the provision of Point-of-Sales systems to the aviation industry as demonstrated by their extensive client list of leading airlines,” said Wingspeed Director of Sales in Europe Ciaran Bernard.
“This joint solution demonstrates the key benefit of the Wingspeed XFIA architecture, and that is an extensible communications and computing platform that can host a range of applications from electronic charting for pilots to real-time credit card authorisation for the cabin.”
The joint Wingspeed and Novo Ivc solution comprises
• Wingspeed XLLink Aircraft Communications Unit
• Wingspeed XLLink Network Server Unit
• Cabin Wireless LAN Unit
• Novo Ivc Falcon POS
Wingspeed and Novo Ivc expect to have the first aircraft in revenue service with the joint solution later this year.
ABOUT NOVO IVC
Novo Ivc mobile sales and stock control systems are used on more than 3000 daily journeys by over 50,000 attendants, handling sales in excess of US$860 million. World market leadership has been achieved by providing optimum retail control for travel operators and catering /hospitality service providers. The current customer base includes KLM, Lufthansa, Jet 2, GNER, Air Berlin, Eurostar, Thomas Cook, Gate Gourmet and many others.
Novo Ivc do not just deliver the best hardware and software in existence for the world’s major travel operators but offer unrivalled levels of experience, expertise and flexibility which are vital components in ensuring that retail systems work optimally and reliably .
Innovation is also crucial in ensuring that Novo’s partners are equipped with the most cutting edge and complete solutions available. In the airline sector, Novo Ivc customers were the first to use computers for on-board retail, the first to use computers for on-board pre-order and the first to utilise infra-red communication technology on-board.
ABOUT WINGSPEED
Wingspeed Corporation, headquartered in Concord, Massachusetts, US, is dedicated to providing an open and scalable communications and computing platform that can host a range of solutions.
The XLLink Voice & Data Communication System (XVDS) provides aircraft operators with a global communications link to the aircraft that enables optimal decision making through the real-time exchange of information between the aircraft and operations.
The XLLink Flight Information Architecture comprises a computer network platform onboard the aircraft that when coupled with the XVDS are capable of hosting any solution including messaging, voice, CPDLC, Technical Log, electronic Charts, Cabin Applications, or complete automated paperless operations.
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