By Emeka Aginam
One of the leaders  in  e-ticketing  in West Africa, Aero Contractor has  launched  a facility that will enable bookings-on-hold payment to be made on ATM machines.

This new innovative payment platform will which commenced  August 1, 2010, has been  has been integrated to the aero ticket-sale booking engine. The application offers  customers the opportunity to make bookings for flight tickets from any part of the country and pay on ATM machines.

In addition, this Interswitch integration will enable payments at all the branches of 20 Interswitch powered banks in Nigeria.

Robert Prophet, Head of Commercial for Aero, while explaining the application said: “We are excited to introduce the ATM payment option. It has been our policy to make travel more easy, affordable, simple and convenient. With this payment option, passengers will be able to conveniently book and pay for tickets without having to visit the banking hall or the airline’s sales desk.Payment can be made at the Interswitch ATM machines across the country using the booking reference.