Aer Lingus to stop storing payment cards over security concerns

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• Zack says:

  7 Apr7 April 06:22

  The Dell links do not take you to the correct web page. (On mobile)

• ayearinmx says:

  7 Apr7 April 08:31

  thanks for the info about the dell ‘opt-in’ for the amex business gold… i hadn’t done that!

  • flyforfun says:

    7 Apr7 April 09:29

    Check your BAPP card. I currently get £100 off £750 cumulative spend. I did subscribe to it last year during the black Friday sales, but got a better deal on a Lenovo laptop. Better specs and cheaper insurance. I had some negative experiences with Dell’s post sales support despite having paid for it.

  • Sam says:

    7 Apr7 April 10:48

    Yep – thanks – I didn’t see the offer under normal offers and just assumed I hadn’t been selected, i’m now enrolled!

• Mikeact says:

  7 Apr7 April 08:34

  Aer Lingus are deleting my card as well….no problem. In fact I’ve taken to delete most cards I have on file with certain suppliers.

• David says:

  7 Apr7 April 08:47

  Malmaison offer not available for the rest of the year at Brighton, Cheltenham or Dundee from what I can see…

  There have been quite a lot of these dodgy hotel marketing offers around with either non-existent availability or inflated prices. Eg. also the recent Accor 3 for 2 offer where they had simply inflated prices for the 2 nights on a number of properties (we had been monitoring prices for a future stay).

  Companies really ought to be doing better if they want our cash after a diabolical year. Buyer beware!

  • James Wyatt says:

    7 Apr7 April 09:19

    There appears to be no availability at any of their hotels! Click-bait!

• Dino says:

  7 Apr7 April 09:19

  Just checked Reading and Edinburgh and zero availability on either for the rest of the year and early 2022.

• RussellH says:

  7 Apr7 April 10:07

  As to why Aer Lingus has decided not to store card details any longer, “Why take the risk?” seems sensibly pragmatic to me, even if their IT security is fully compatible with PCIDSS.

  • Steve says:

    7 Apr7 April 10:55

    Totally agree with this, always felt like an unnecessary risk.

  • Bagoly says:

    7 Apr7 April 13:51

    Not enough information to tell whether this is forced, pragmatic, or even increasing risk.

    Wasn’t it BA which used to have a link “why it’s safer to store your card than re-enter each time?”
    And IF they used tokenisation properly, there is a fair case that it was indeed safer, because after the first use, BA and the network from customer to them should have never seen the actual CC number.
    In the 2018 BA breach, the issue was reportedly that card details were being harvested as part of the entry processing, not from a database of past customers, which would actually vindicate the recommendation to store (a token).

• John says:

  7 Apr7 April 10:09

  There is no good advance booking rate available at any Malmaison hotel for the rest ofthe year from what I can see. I wish this could be checked before posting such an article!

  • Rob says:

    7 Apr7 April 10:10

    Thanks John. Will delete if the deals are not showing as they should.

• Chris H says:

  7 Apr7 April 11:21

  Plus the VAT of course.

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