{"id":15463,"date":"2026-01-19T21:43:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T03:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=15463"},"modified":"2026-01-19T21:47:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T03:47:21","slug":"akasa-air-introduces-apple-pay-for-international-travellers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=15463","title":{"rendered":"Akasa Air introduces Apple Pay for international travellers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Story and image from Akasa Air<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Mumbai, India, 15 January 16, 2026<\/strong> &#8211; Akasa Air, India\u2019s fastest-growing airline, announced Apple Pay as a payment option on its website and mobile app, empowering international travellers with a seamless and secure payment experience for all flight bookings. Akasa Air is the first Indian carrier to enable Apple Pay for cross-border transactions, reinforcing its commitment to hassle-free customer experiences across all touchpoints. This integration has been facilitated in partnership with Razorpay, the first Indian payment gateway to enable Apple Pay for cross-border transactions, making international bookings simpler and more reliable.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Recognising payments as a vital element of the customer journey, Akasa Air has integrated Apple Pay to offer a trusted and familiar payment option that reduces drop-offs and supports smoother international bookings for global travellers. With one-tap payments enabled through Face ID or Touch ID, Apple Pay simplifies the checkout process for customers, making flight bookings faster and more convenient for users of Apple devices.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">For domestic bookings, the airline continues to accept a wide range of payment instruments to ensure convenience for all customers, including UPI, credit and debit cards, netbanking, digital wallets, EMI options, and Paylater. This holistic approach to payments underlines Akasa Air\u2019s continuous innovation to enhance convenience for all customers.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Akasa Air Eyes Operational Profitability: CFO Reveals Growth &amp; Strategy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lSUdSV3WOmY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Story and image from Akasa Air Mumbai, India, 15 January 16, 2026 &#8211; Akasa Air, India\u2019s fastest-growing airline, announced Apple Pay as a payment option on its website and mobile app, empowering international travellers with a seamless and secure payment experience for all flight bookings. Akasa Air is the first Indian carrier to enable Apple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15464,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[797,89,5637,13618,2203,5500,13740,5676],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-airline-news","category-aviation-news","category-business-news","category-communications-news","category-finance-news","category-frequent-flyer-news","category-india-news","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15465,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15463\/revisions\/15465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}