Dublin-based crew accommodation desk pairs a 24/7 human operations team with a client portal — and a digital crew card, personalised in the captain's name, that sits in Apple Wallet or Google Wallet before the aircraft lands.

DUBLIN, Ireland — 18 August 2026 — Hotels Worldwide, a crew accommodation platform for the aviation industry, has opened its client booking portal at hotelswide.com and introduced a feature it believes is a first in the crew accommodation market: a digital crew card issued in the captain's name and added to Apple Wallet or Google Wallet, with card details revealed only after approval from the operations desk.

The company serves airline operations teams, private aviation, flight support companies and ground handlers — buyers whose accommodation needs are rarely planned. A diversion, an AOG event or a crew change can mean rooms are needed within hours, at night, in a city where the operator holds no rate agreement. Hotels Worldwide's answer is a live booking portal for teams that want self-service, backed by a 24/7 human operations desk for everything else. Operators that prefer to email a room request the way they always have can continue to do so; both routes reach the same desk and the same live board.

Payment at the front desk is a persistent weak point in crew travel: card details circulate by email and messaging apps, and crews are held at check-in over payment queries. Hotels Worldwide addresses this in two ways. For most stays, crews check in with a branded voucher and never present a payment card at all. Where a hotel requires a card at the property, the company provides a digital crew card personalised in the captain's name, delivered to the captain's phone and added to Apple Wallet or Google Wallet in seconds. The card's details stay hidden until the operations desk approves a reveal, which then displays for 30 seconds before disappearing again.

"Card details should not live in inboxes, and a captain at a 02:00 check-in should not be negotiating payment. The desk approves the reveal, the hotel settles the stay, and the crew simply rests," said Sultan Y, Director at Hotels Worldwide.

Room rates are negotiated directly with partner hotels and agreed in writing before the stay. Meals and laundry are billed on actual use within the operator's policy, every hotel folio is audited line by line, and each client receives a single consolidated invoice per trip — replacing per-stay reconciliation across statements and folios.

The portal is live now. Operators can request access, or send a first booking request by email, at hotelswide.com.

About Hotels Worldwide
Hotels Worldwide is a crew accommodation platform for the aviation industry: confirmed crew hotel rooms at AOG speed — any city, any hour — through a live booking portal backed by a 24/7 human operations desk, with negotiated rates, branded vouchers, wallet-ready digital crew cards and one audited invoice per trip. Hotels Worldwide is a trading name of JPB Tech Solution, registered in Ireland (CRO 721636), 51 Bracken Road, D18 CV48, Dublin.

Media contact: Sultan Y, Director — [email protected] · +1 831-275-9949 · 24/7 desk +1 831-275-9946 · https://hotelswide.com