Finally you can pay for your air tickets with your foreign credit card on Ctrip

And you thought they'd never get to it! Ctrip.com is now looking a lot more like a dot.com because you can now finally pay for that ticket you booked online via Paypal and with your foreign credit card. As far as we can remember, the last time we tried to book a ticket with our foreign credit card, their customer service staff directed us to fax in an authorisation letter to allow them to charge our card, and since the last time we even touched a fax machine was like ten years ago, we gave up and decided to call another travel agent. ChinaTechNews.com reports that having built in payment options for non-Chinese, Ctrip is now going to work on brandbuilding among foreigners. We'll try buying our next ticket online with Ctrip and tell you how it goes.

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I have been based in Nanjing for the past 6 weeks and have already bought two lots of tickets using credit card on Crip, and flown once already. No problems - except that their online form tries to force your name into their chosen data fields rather than the ones I have on my credit card. The result is, that in my case at least, the data actually accepted is not quite the data that the credit card company normally require. (ie. name exactly as on card, and address as billed). Slightly worrying, but it did not seem to stop the authorisation. Having tried to play the fax game as as well it is a major improvement.

Thank god for that! I hope eLong is following suit!

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