Outpayce and HSBC partner to help airlines price fares in travelers’ preferred currency

Move comes as new research shows a third of airlines plan to offer Multi-Currency Pricing.

Today, airlines often price their products in a default currency, rather than the traveler’s local or preferred currency. This impacts the shopping experience and can lower purchase rates as travelers leave the airline’s website to perform a manual Foreign Exchange (FX) conversion. That’s why more than a third of airlines responding to a recent Amadeus survey confirmed they plan to offer fares in multiple currencies within the next twelve months. 

It is against this backdrop that Outpayce from Amadeus is expanding its current offering by partnering with HSBC so the global bank can make its competitive FX rates available to airlines through Outpayce’s FX Box Multi Currency Pricing (MCP) solution. Japan Airlines is the first carrier to offer its passengers multi-currency pricing through the Outpayce and HSBC partnership.

With this HSBC partnership, FX Box MCP has…