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Publish Date : 26-Aug-2013

GuestLogix Inc., the leading global provider of onboard retail and payment technology solutions to airlines and the passenger travel industry, today announced a multi-year payment processing agreement with Canada's flag carrier, Air Canada to provide transaction processing services across the inflight entertainment (IFE) solution currently in use by Air Canada rouge. The comprehensive payment solution will allow Air Canada rouge to monetize its player IFE system onboard its existing fleet of Boeing 767-300 and Airbus 319 aircraft, as well as offer secure, PCI-compliant payment processing across its entire fleet to enable the sale of premium entertainment content. Within this agreement, GuestLogix may also act as the merchant of record in any onboard retail scenario that reduces operational complexity.

"GuestLogix is proud to partner with Air Canada rouge to deliver a modern and secure onboard retail environment for passengers," said Brett Proud, President & CEO, GuestLogix. With the diversity of entertainment options emerging throughout the global airline industry, GuestLogix is rapidly becoming an integral component by integrating seamless, certified, global payment processing capabilities with many of the industry's largest inflight entertainment and connectivity suppliers and their airline customers. "With inflight entertainment and connectivity solutions evolving at such a rapid rate, GuestLogix is being asked to ensure that certified payment processing becomes a central component to each new solution in virtually every corner of the globe," added Proud.

With the launch of Air Canada rouge, the airline has chosen to offer a brand new form of IFE, allowing passengers to stream stored movies, television shows and other entertainment content to their personal devices using Panasonic's eXW solution. GuestLogix is able to support both of these IFE models in a fully PCI-compliant manner ensuring all payment and sales data is secure.

"Based on our research and business plan, it's clear offering customers world-class entertainment at their fingertips through their own mobile devices is the winning solution both for them and for Air Canada rouge," said Anton Vidgen, Senior Director, Customer and Technology, Air Canada rouge. "Partnering with GuestLogix ensures the security of payment data for our rouge (economy) customers as they use our player entertainment system and as we gradually build out additional retailing capabilities. We know that with GuestLogix we are using the industry's most proven onboard payment technology."

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