Hi everyone. I¹m Cameron McLean, PayPal¹s General Manager for UK Merchant Services. With the summer holidays fast approaching, many families are planning their summer getaways. While traveling abroad with the family inevitably requires some extra patience, booking your tickets in the first place shouldn¹t, which is why I¹m delighted that customers of American Airlines and Emirates Airlines in the UK can now speed through checkout as quickly as their cousins across the pond, by paying via PayPal.

Customers paying for Emirates or American Airlines flights through PayPal won¹t have to enter any financial or billing information, making booking flights faster and easier. What¹s more, UK residents will be able to pay for flights on www.emirates.com or www.aa.com using PayPal with the flexibility to fund their tickets via PayPal balance, along with local payment methods such as UK debit cards and local bank account funds, a move we expect to be really popular with American Airline¹s and Emirates customers.

Emirates joined PayPal following some interesting customer research on which alternative payments methods are likely to most appeal to customers in over 37 countries served by the site. We¹re delighted that, unsurprisingly, PayPal was at the top of their list!

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