How to pay when booking airline tickets by calling?

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It depends. More englightened companies that care about security, will take your personal details and then pass you on, either to an automated system or another employee who does not have access to your identity, in order to obtain the credit card information.

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In addition to the other answers, I'll add that while it's never entirely secure the risk is low enough for you to be ok. Credit card companies will prevent you from being liable in cause of fraud anyway, and while paying online seems safer computer systems are not risk-free.

If you happen to live somewhere where airlines still have travel offices, you could try to go and pay in person otherwise yes you'll have to trust them over the phone.

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Yes. Providing you credit card number to the airline over the phone is perfectly safe.

Just be sure you are in fact calling the airline directly and not an agency selling a package or other promotional offer.

It's highly unusual that an airline would require you to call. They put a lot of effort into seeing you don't have to call.

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