Some 64 pay stations deployed at four major parking lots at Las Vegas’ McCarran International Airport now accept PayPass contactless payments, MasterCard Worldwide announced on May 5. McCarran is North America’s seventh-busiest airport. The parking lot pay stations also accept other contactless payment brands, including Visa Inc.’s payWave.
Since last year, parking lots at airports in Philadelphia, Miami and Norfolk, Va., also have begun accepting contactless payments, MasterCard says.
MasterCard in June 2007 inked an agreement with Affliated Computer Services Inc., which operates parking systems in some two dozen of the nation’s largest airports, with the goal of enabling many airport parking facilities to accept PayPass.
The parking lot readers will continue to accept traditional magnetic stripe cards and will work with accept all types of contactless payments.
At airports such as McCarren, which handles 40 million passengers annually, “travelers have a quick and easy alternative to cash when paying for parking,” Cathleen Conforti, MasterCard senior vice president, global PayPass, said in a statement.
