American Airlines Hires Chase-1st Data Venture

Chase Merchant Services, a joint venture of Chase Manhattan Corp. and First Data Corp., has won a contract to process Visa and MasterCard transactions for American Airlines.

American Airlines, with $5 billion in annual bank card volume, has used Electronic Data Systems Corp. as its merchant processor, an airline spokesman said.

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