Only Two Airlines Have Embraced Apple Pay a Year After Its Roll-Out
Photo Credit: JetBlue is the only U.S. airline and only one of two airlines in the world to embrace Apple Pay so far. JetBlue
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Rolling out Apple Pay across an entire fleet probably isn't cheap, but letting travelers use their iPhones to make in-flight purchases and bookings when they're already in-hand makes more sense than asking them to fish through bags to dig out a credit card.
Nearly a year after the launch of Apple Pay, Apple's digital wallet, it's still possible to count on one hand--make that two fingers--the number of airlines who let travelers use the service while onboard or while booking via mobile devices.
JetBlue, and recently Emirates, are the lone sheep amid a sky of global airlines who haven't signaled any embrace of the mobile payments system that securely stor
