Yet...all of that complexity has been resolved by Air BP's competitors and those credit card pre-authorisations go on all day every day at (non Air BP) bowsers in some pretty remote places.
Given the patent commercial silliness in Air BP's position when I last bothered trying to deal with them, I'm hardly surprised Air BP hasn't achieved the same outcomes (assuming they're even trying). In negotiating legal agreements with the credit providers, Air BP would probably press for nonsensical provisions which are laughed at by the credit providers (as we did when they wouldn't accept $10,000 cash in their account instead of insisting on the credit check and bank guarantee rigmarole which would have achieved nearly the same outcome but with more embuggerance to Air BP if they ever had to draw on the guarantee).
It may not be achievable at a tiny number of extraordinarily remote places (yet, due cost), but that's irrelevant to the places where it is already achievable. There is, for example, no reasonable technical or commercial or logistical impediment to having a credit card bowser at YBHI and YCDU.
Last edited by Lead Balloon; 26th Feb 2023 at 20:11.