[photopress:sms.jpg,full,alignright]Electronic payment systems firm SmartPay and Nanjing Yinyan Airlines Services Company, one of the biggest airline ticketing agents in Nanjing, will begin mobile airline ticketing. This will specifically be for customers in Nanjing. SmartPay and Yinyan’s service allows customers to purchase airline e-tickets by sending a simple SMS or IVR instruction.
SmartPay will be operating in many other provinces in China moving to payment of pre- and post-paid mobile phone bills, lottery ticketing and utility bill payments.
SmartPay provides mobile payment platform building upon its extensive network with banks and mobile operators in the region. Yinyan processes over RMB180 million worth of air tickets annually.
Source: Hospitality News