A large percentage of Airline passengers are keen to pay for their airline tickets using mobile devices, according to the results of a study that have just been released.

The Perfect Passenger Payment report, which was undertaken by WorldPay, a payment processing company that provides payment services for mail order, Internet retailers and point of sale transactions, involved 4,500 global consumers who had purchased an airline ticket online in the past twelve months. The views of 50 airline merchants were also included in the study.

Key to the report’s findings was the fact that 50 percent of those consumers questioned would use a mobile device to purchase airline tickets now if the service were available, and 62 percent expect to have the option of doing so in the future. 6 percent had already used a mobile device to book a ticket. Figures that are not surprising considering that 56 percent of consumers already carry a smartphone or tablet device.