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AIRCHARGE and Sprint Team Up for Wireless Payment at Southwest Airlines Tourney |
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AIRCHARGE®, a wholly owned subsidiary of Pipeline
Data Inc. [OTCBB:PPDA], recently teamed with Sprint Nextel [NYSE:S] to provide secure wireless payment services
for Southwest Airline’s 22nd Annual LUV Classic Golf
tournament to benefit Ronald McDonald
House Charities in Dallas, Texas. AIRCHARGE® and Sprint Nextel paired i355 Motorola phones on the Sprint Nationwide
Network with AIRCHARGE® AirPro card swipe printing devices and proprietary
software to provide secure credit card transaction processing at both the Bear
Creek Golf Club course, where the event was hosted, and the charity auction
dinner later that evening.
“AIRCHARGE®
and Sprint really came through for us in an extremely condensed time frame. Their
payment solutions worked on short notice and in very challenging conditions. We
had several stations around the course accepting donations from our tournament
participants and processed almost 400 transactions throughout the day. We are very pleased that both AIRCHARGE® and Sprint
Nextel delivered in such a big way,” said Lori Skinner, LUV Classic Event
Coordinator for Southwest Airlines.
“When
Southwest Airlines informed me their credit card processor could not provide
the wireless devices necessary for the LUV Classic, we contacted our wireless
payment partner, AIRCHARGE®, immediately,” said Jeff Kort, Sprint Senior
Account Executive. Even though we had only 72 hours from receiving the request
to delivering the solution, Sprint and AIRCHARGE® teams worked together successfully to provide
a merchant account, eighteen [18] Motorola phones coupled with the AIRCHARGE® AirPro
card swipe, printing devices and proprietary software.“
“Having
the opportunity to provide our secure wireless payment devices, software and merchant processing to benefit the important
work of Ronald McDonald House Charities was very rewarding,” added James Plappert, Chief
Marketing Officer of Pipeline Data. “When
such high quality and well respected companies as Southwest Airlines and Sprint
trust AIRCHARGE® to provide payment solutions, then we know our commitment to
quality, security and innovation have made a positive impact,” he added.
About Pipeline Data Inc.
Pipeline Data Inc.
(PPDA) is a value-added provider of merchant payment processing services and
other related software products. The Company currently delivers credit and
debit card -based payment processing and related services to small to
medium-sized merchants who operate either in a physical "brick and
mortar" business environment, over the Internet or wirelessly utilizing
cellular phones. Pipeline's payment processing services enable merchants to
process traditional card-present, or "swipe" transactions, as well as
card-not-present transactions. For more information, please visit www.pipelinedata.com
About Southwest Airlines
Southwest
Airlines is the nation’s largest carrier in terms of domestic passengers
enplaned, and currently serves 64 cities in 32 states. The company was recently
named to Business Week's first ever list
of "Customer Service Champs," which ranks corporate America’s best providers of
customer service. For eight years in a row, Southwest Airlines was named to
Business Ethics magazine's list as one of America's "100 Best Corporate
Citizens" for its leadership role in corporate citizenship. For eleven consecutive
years, FORTUNE magazine recognized Southwest Airlines as one of America's top
ten Most Admired Companies. For more information, please visit www.southwest.com.
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