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Old May 9, 2014 | 3:48 am
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Originally Posted by daniellam
Travel agencies (including online ones) tend to use the airline's merchant account when issuing tickets if it is published fare that is found in the GDS. Your credit card bill will show up as "Singapore Airlines" (provided the travel agency inputs your credit card number into the "form of payment" field of your PNR and use the GDS [as opposed to their own credit card machine] to obtain credit card approval). As far as the credit company is concerned, you would be spending directly with the airline.

Only when certain discounted/bulk fares are issued (or when the "form of payment" is entered as "cash", "invoice", "agt", "check" etc.), would the travel agency's name show up on the credit card bill.
This looks to be a good option. I will check with the OTAs how they do the billing and use the appropriate one. Would you be knowing which OTAs would show the airline name in my statement?
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