Connect Global Travel With
Seamless Airline Payments

Control and optimize payments end-to-end with a unique closed-loop payment system, designed specifically for airlines.

Airlines

Scale and Optimize Airline Payments With Nium

The airline industry connects suppliers all over the world, but legacy payment methods bring high costs, slow processing, and time-consuming reconciliation. Nium’s Airline Payments (NAP) solution offers a revolutionary closed-loop payment model that eliminates intermediaries, reduces costs, and improves operational efficiency. With one platform, airlines can boost financial operations, strengthen relationships with OTAs, and provide a superior customer experience.

Efficient Global
Airline Payments

Own the payment flow

Eliminate intermediaries in the payment flow to drive significant savings in payment processing costs, with all outgoings managed within a system you control.
Enhance speed and flexibility

Benefit from fast, daily, and guaranteed settlements delivered by bank transfer, offering the same reliability as card payments without the associated costs.
Simplify setup with no integrations

Implement Nium Airline Payments without the need for complex integrations. The solution leverages UATP authorization rails, requiring only a simple settlement agreement to route funds.

Complete Control
and Transparency

Manage controlled incentives

Airlines can manage incentives offered to OTAs with flexibility, allowing them to shape demand, route selection, and volumes effectively.
Ensure efficient reconciliation

Streamline reconciliation without the burden of card costs. Nium provides aggregated statements and detailed transactional data, including PNRs, for ease of matching and reporting.
Increase acceptance and eliminate surcharges

Powered by UATP, Nium guarantees acceptance for agents and eliminates surcharges, declines, and Agent Debit Memos (ADMs).

Protect and Enhance
Key Relationships

Enhance collaboration with OTAs

Connect directly with OTAs using flexible payment options, fostering mutually beneficial relationships and driving booking volumes.
Improve cash flow with faster rebates

Receive rebates on a daily basis instead of monthly or quarterly, improving cash flow and operational efficiency.
Protect profits

Reduce the risk of margin erosion with interchange cap protection to preempt regulatory changes and maintain profitability.

Join 1000+ companies on the Nium payments infrastructure

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Premium content

Closing the loop for air travel: A new payments model for airlines and online travel agencies

Discover the power of the closed-loop option for airlines and OTAs. Learn how to collaborate seamlessly, build profit margins, and reach more customers.

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Closing the loop for air travel: A new payments model for airlines and online travel agencies

Customer Stories

Hear From Our Customers

For decades, the travel industry has been grappling with complex, slow, and expensive payment methods. Nium is transforming the way money moves through the travel ecosystem for the better. We look forward to helping Air France and KLM resolve some of the inequities – for both the airlines and for the travel-selling intermediaries – associated with outdated traditional payment models.

KLM + Airfrance

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