Air Asia, the Malaysian budget carrier, having a sizeable presence in South and South-east Asia region, provides easy online booking facility with its user-friendly website and mobile application interface. Even when people want to fly on its subsidiaries in other countries, they can use the same interface in their respective countries for Air Asia flight booking. It has tied-up with prominent travel agencies in respective countries to facilitate the sale of its tickets. While booking tickets, passengers have the choice of many different payment options. These varied choices cover almost all ways in which a traveller can make the payment so that online ticket booking is not hampered by availability of suitable payment mode. These modes of payment are mentioned here.
Credit Cards
Air Asia accepts all major types of credit cards from passengers. These include Visa, Mastercard, Amex, JCB and UnionPay. Out of these, Visa and Mastercard are accepted for all currencies whereas Amex is used for currencies of Malaysia, Thailand, the USA, Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong and India. JCB is used for Japanese Yen and Thai Baht. UnionPay credit cards are used only for Thai Baht. However, it shall be noted that JCB and UnionPay cards are used at the sales counters operated by Thai AirAsia and the airport only.
Prepaid Cards
Three prepaid cards, which are actually the cobranded cards of BIG frequent flyer program with Visa and MasterCard and the AirAsia ezpay cards, are also one of the methods of payment for tickets booked online.
Debit Cards
At present AirAsia airline provides the debit card method of payment for Indonesian Rupiah only.
Direct Debit
Air Asia has tied up with a number of payment portal solution providers or directly with banks for direct debit for various currencies. It has arrangements with FPX for Malaysian Ringgit, Siam Commercial Bank and GHL Thai Debit for Thailand Baht, KlikBCA, BCA KlikPay and CIMB Niaga for Indonesian Rupiah, eNETS for Singaporean Dollars, Dragonpay Corporation for Philippine Peso, AliPay, Tenpay and UnionPay for Renminbi, CC Avenue and Axis Bank for Indian Rupee, PayPal and POLi for Australian Dollar, Smartlink for US Dollar and some banks of Japan for Yen.
ATM Payments
It accepts ATM payments from passengers for Indonesian Rupiah, Vietnamese Dong and Japanese Yen. The airline has tie-ups with local partners for this purpose.
Over the Counter and Cash on Delivery Options
To facilitate convenient online Air Asia flight booking, the carrier also provides convenient cash on delivery options in some countries where it operates. It also provides over the counter (OTC) payment facility for some currencies through designated retailers.
OTC payments for Indonesian Rupiah are taken by Indomaret and Alfamart outlets, for Indian Rupee by Smart Shop, for Japanese Yen by a number of banks and for Thailand Baht by 7-Eleven, K-Bank and Siam Commercial Bank.
Cash on Delivery mode of payment for the tickets booked with AirAsia is available in India for Indian rupee payments only.
It also has a number of payment partners for online bookings. For South Korean Won, the partner is Korea Cyber Payment. For Philippine Peso, these are Bayad Centre, 7- Eleven, Robinsons and others with some attached conditions.
With all these diversified options provided by the carrier and also by travel agencies in India, prospective travellers will not face any issue for using their preferred mode of payment while doing Air Asia flight booking.
