Abanco International Partners with Midwest Airlines to Offer Onboard Credit Card Payments.

ROSEMONT, Ill. -- Abanco International today announced that it would partner with Milwaukee-based Midwest Airlines to offer payments for services on Midwest flights. Midwest Airlines will utilize the innovative and proven Abanco Mobile Data Technology (MDT) In-Flight application to process credit card payments for Best Care Cuisine onboard meals, alcoholic beverages and the airline's popular digEplayer(TM) handheld entertainment units. The new payment service will be available on flights beginning in mid-November.

MDT In-Flight is the airline industry's most complete wireless credit card payment processing, data management and inventory control solution. A multi-featured wireless device with bar-coding scanning and magnetic strip technologies that not only expands payment options for onboard services, it also speeds and simplifies the service process - allowing for a better passenger experience.

"The MDT In-Flight application has been proven as the airlines' best solution for in-flight revenue generation," said Tracy Metzger, President, Abanco International. "With MDT In-Flight, Abanco has addressed the airline industry challenge to create value, add convenience and provide new options for operational efficiencies that benefit the bottom line."

"Our customer research indicates that a significant number of passengers would like to use a credit card to pay for onboard products and services," added Scott R. Dickson, Midwest Airlines Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer. "The Abanco MDT system meets our current and future needs, as we look to do more onboard with and for our customers."

About Midwest Airlines

Midwest Airlines features jet service throughout the United States. Skyway Airlines, Inc. - its wholly owned subsidiary - operates as Midwest Connect, which offers connections to Midwest Airlines as well as point-to-point service between select markets on regional jet and turboprop aircraft. Together, the airlines offer service to 47 cities. More information is available at www.midwestairlines.com.

About Abanco International, LLC 

Abanco International, LLC, headquartered in Rosemont, Ill., was founded with a mission of providing the best "Total Payment Solutions" available. Abanco provides thousands of customers with the most advanced payments and data-transaction technology in today's market. Our suite of products and services are based on our core payment facility that provides all forms of payment processing, which includes electronic reporting, archival facilities, software development, and in-house deployment operations - all backed by a 24x7x365 service desk. Our proprietary front-end gateway switch is designed to eliminate compatibility and integration challenges as it routes credit card authorization and capture to the platform of choice and data to our robust data warehouse.

Today, Abanco has expanded our core payment-processing infrastructure that transacts millions of payment transactions per day to its next generation - the delivery of highly customized, vertical specific solutions to meet the needs of industries such as healthcare, airline, golf and others. These innovative solutions leverage Abanco's core payments and data transaction processing in unique environments such as an airline carrier's "Services for Sale" retail environment or payments acquiring at a physician's office that includes terminal or web based real-time insurance eligibility and verification. Abanco International, LLC is privately held. Company and product information are available at www.abanco.com.