Alternative Airlines
“Can a flight booking aggregator win on payment flexibility — offering more BNPL, financing, and payment-method choice than any competitor?”
Alternative Airlines began as a UK/US-focused flight booking aggregator, covering 600+ airlines worldwide. Over time, the company expanded into smaller and more niche markets, requiring new payment infrastructure — notably using Stripe Issuing to pay smaller airlines directly via virtual cards. The company has also aggressively layered buy-now-pay-later and flight financing options — partnering with Affirm, Klarna, Afterpay, Zip, and many others — to differentiate itself in the competitive OTA space. The embedded finance stack is core to the product proposition: offering more payment flexibility than any other travel booking platform.