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Within six months of WWW.BELAVIA.BY web- site operation about seven thousand tickets has been bought by means of bank cards.

 

On January 6, 2010 National Aircompany Belavia together with the electronic payment system Skarbnik and BPS- Bank OJSC introduced a new service of air tickets purchase by credit cards on the web- site WWW.BELAVIA.BY in the Belarusian market.

 

About 7000 air tickets have been sold for the first 6 months of the on-line service work. Sales geography has also expanded and among more than 70 purchasing countries there are such exotic countries as Nicaragua, Uruguay, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Malaysia, Cote d'Ivoire, Honduras, Bahrain, Vatican and many others.

However among the top 10 countries which use online air ticket purchase service the European countries prevail. The leaders are citizens of Russia with 22%, followed by citizens of Great Britain – they have 13.5%. The top three is closed by the Belarusians with 9.8% that slightly outrun the Italians. They are followed by the Germans, citizens of the USA, the Dutch, the French and the Irish in descending order.

 

It should be noted that the number of Belarusians that use the on-line service on the web-site WWW.BELAVIA.BY has increased almost three times within the last three months. In this connection we should mention that 50.5% of all bank cards used for air tickets purchase were issued by Priorbank. It is largely due to the fact that the bank issued all its cards for purchasing via Internet. Belvnesheconombank is the second with its 15.5%, and the third best is Belgazprombank with 6 %, the rest of the banks have less than 5 % of payments by credit cards each. 64.6% of the total amount of the cards are the cards of the International payment system VISA, over the half of them are VISA Classic, and about 20% are VISA Gold, the cards becoming more and more popular in our country. 35.4% are cards of MasterCard payment system, more than 60% of them are MasterCardStandart.