United Airlines Lets You Fly Now, Pay Later
Jackie Reddy November 06, 2019
Uplift, a travel financial technology company, has announced a partnership with United Airlines that will let passengers travel now, but pay for their fares later. As part of the collaboration, the firm’s Pay Monthly facility will let travelers spread the cost of their fares over an 11-month period.
Travel financial technology company Uplift has announced that it is partnering with United Airlines to offer passengers the option to travel now, but pay for their fares later using the firm’s Uplift Pay Monthly facility.
In a statement, the company explains that this would enable passengers to cover the cost of their tickets over 11 months. The company adds that Pay Monthly already fits “seamlessly” into United’s current payment process and offers “fast, secure and cost-effective payment settlement for airlines.”
Speaking out about the collaboration, Praveen Sharma, VP of Digital Products and Analytics, United, said, “We began offering Uplift Pay Monthly in 2017 with United Vacations and received great feedback from our customers about the option to pay over time. Expanding Uplift’s flexible purchase option to flight tickets now allows even more customers to travel the world and create memories that will last a lifetime.”
Offering his comments, Brian Barth, CEO of Uplift, said, “Our mission to make travel more accessible, affordable and rewarding for everyone perfectly aligns with United’s purpose of connecting people and uniting the world. Travel has become a fundamental part of our lives and consumers today demand more flexibility. We’re excited to help more people experience the world with this partnership with United.”
Uplift’s Pay Monthly option will available for passengers looking to book tickets from the United States to any of the more than 350 destinations served by United.
...what's the catch? There always has to be a catch to offers like this.
"Fantastic way to get FOMO millennials trapped into even more debt with high interest rates" If they're too stupid to realize this on their own, why should I care?
It won't end well, but it will end the first time a passenger makes a time-pay reservation, and then 3 months later he finds out he needs surgery and won't be able to take the flight in another 6 months. He will stop making his payments on a flight he won't get refunded for, and the economic model for airline time payments will collapse.
United has been doing that for years. It's called a United credit card...
“This isn’t going to end well.”