US Airways announced a new partnership with PayPal today to begin accepting PayPal as a payment method for ticket purchases made off of their website, UsAirways.com. US Airways joins PayPal much as other airlines in the past have including Northwest, Southwest and AirTran Airways.

PayPal seems to really be targeting these airlines in an effort to expand their partnerships and to take advantage of the huge amounts of transactions that take place every day for airline ticket purchases Online. One by one they are announcing these partnerships and seem to be welcomed by most of the major airline companies. PayPal isn’t the only Online company taking advantage of partnerships with national airlines or airports. We recently reported about Zappos and their airport security bin marketing partnerships.

Here’s what Travis Christ, US Airways Vice President of Sales and Marketing, had to say…

An important part of our ongoing project to rebuild usairways.com is to provide our customers with the payment options they’ve asked for, including the ability to pay via PayPal.

Here’s what Stephanie Tilenius, VP of merchant services for PayPal, had to say…

Adding US Airways as a PayPal merchant is an exciting step forward for us and for our customers. We look forward to providing travelers with the security and simplicity of PayPal when booking their next flight with US Airways.

According to UsAirways.com, PayPal is Convenient and Secure Way To Purchase Tickets

Convenience

• PayPal makes booking your ticket fast and easy.
• Pay with your credit card, debit card, or bank account – it’s up to you.
• No need to retype your financial information.

Security

• Never enter your credit card number when you book your ticket.
• 100% protection against any unauthorized payments sent from your account.
• Every purchase confirmed with an email receipt.

PayPay seems to have found a great way to gain momentum in their industry and certainly proved that they are interested in being offered anywhere and everywhere payments can be accepted. It wouldn’t surprise me to see Google Checkout do something similar. It also makes me wonder what indutry PayPal plans to tackle next? Any ideas? Hotels and motels, if not already an option would be a great way to go and would also stick within their recent travel partnership theme.