OREANDA-NEWS. April 04, 2008. Air Astana customers have the opportunity to buy air tickets online from their home or office, at any time of day and night. To do this, one needs to apply through the Online Payment Mechanism on the Air Astana website (www.airastana.com), choose a flight and price, and pay for the ticket by bank card. After confirmation, an electronic ticket may be printed out or a standard ticket may be issued in a travel agency, reported the press-centre of KKB.

Kazkommertsbank has been chosen as the processing center and clearing bank for cashless payments for Air Astana air tickets bought online through the International Amadeus Airline Reservation System. Kazkommertsbank is the only Kazakh commercial bank capable of receiving and processing online transactions made by payment cards of any issuing bank via its ePay (epay.kkb.kz) server.

Kazkommertsbank is also the only Kazakh bank that ensures security of online payments through its use of the most advanced technology used by Visa and MasterCard, the 3-D Secure virtual environment used by Visa and the similar MasterCard SecureCode system. All confidential information (last name, given name, patronymic, card number, term of validity, etc.) is to be entered by the buyer not on the website of the service supplier, but directly at the ePay server. Additional data security is provided by the SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) protocol.

This online service for Air Astana is part of the range of cashless payment services provided by Kazkommertsbank as part of its objective of meeting the international standards of Visa and MasterCard and of the American Express bonus card product payment system, whose credit cards, GOLD and Platinum, have been exclusively issued in Kazakhstan by Kazkommertsbank since September 2007. Kazkommertsbank has licenses from these payment systems for all types of processing operations, so card payments can be made through its ePay center. Payment may also be made by debit (electronic) cards issued by Kazkommertsbank and by any other bank.

Note: the Online Payment Mechanism enables booking and purchase of air tickets through the website of the company, with payment by bank card. A visitor to the site has the opportunity to select, book and pay for air flights in real time online.
 
The Online Payment Mechanism will also enable one to select a meal on the flight, choose and reserve hotels and hire cars. This system significantly saves the customer’s trip planning time.

The customer may be sure that the ticket or reservation is wholly secure both as a booking and as a payment.