Europe-wide online travel retailer Skytours is switching to a new payment technology provider courtesy of a deal with Travelport-backed joint venture eNett.
The eNett platform will power all supplier payments (car hire, flights, hotels) for Skytours through its so-called virtual card payment system, a process which uses a one-off Mastercard account for each transaction to help eliminate the threat of card misuse.
The deal is one of the larger to emerge from eNett since its launch as a joint-venture between Travelport and PSP International in July 2009.
The company has so far secured partnerships with Flight Centre and Carlson Wagonlit (for the hotelNett product), amongst others.
Skytours is one of a number of German-based online travel agencies to emerge from the old air ticket selling businesses from the 1980s, having worked with the ill-fated Laker Airways to provide low-cost package holidays on the airline.
It became an OTA in 1997 and now sells low cost trips to destinations in around 35 countries.