POSs for Tarom international flights

10,000 mobile and fixed POSs, more than eight years after the first no-cash payment instruments were issued on the Romanian market. Very little, market experts say, and the more so as the ratio is one POS to 400/500 issued cards on one hand, and, on the other, because this market’s potential is expected to be very high. The high costs of such a POS (which now averages 320 euros as compared to an average of 800 euros five years ago), as well as the low volume of payments by card to a certain extent justify the banks’ reluctance to install such devices. It is certain, though, that banks are searching for other profit niches. This is also the case of BCR, which early this month installed 30 mobile POSs aboard Tarom planes. Thus, card owners can now pay for the products they buy by card, during the flight. Wealthy people and businesspersons choose this purchase method, since they do not have much time to waste. ZF