CheapAir.com Lets Users Buy Airline Tickets with Bitcoin
Let's go ahead and add this one to the "awesome" list of websites out there. CheapAir.com is a travel website that allows users to purchase airline tickets, hotels, and so forth (like Priceline and Orbitz - you get the picture). And yes, the digital currency can be used to buy airline tickets. It's one of the first of its kind in the book-your-own-travel industry, and it's certainly one of the best ways I can personally think of spending your Bitcoins. The caveat? This site will only accept Bitcoin from users in the United States and Canada. But for now, this is a nice standard to set for....
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Back in November, CheapAir.com began accepting Bitcoin for booking flights after a customer inquired, "Can I pay with Bitcoin for my flight?" This request was forwarded to CheapAir CEO Jeff Klee, and soon, the company adopted Bitcoin payments for flights. Back then, CheapAir.com stated, "For now, we're only accepting Bitcoin for flight bookings made on CheapAir.com. We hope to extend this payment option in the near future to hotels and flights booked via our iOS app." Looks like they meant what they said, because today, CheapAir.com announced that users can now make hotel reservations....
CheapAir.com, the online travel agency that began accepting bitcoin before it was the cool thing to do (that's a joke, put your pitch fork away), has made an announcement this morning regarding a recently-held contest. The company recently announced they have exceeded $1.5 million USD worth of sales paid for using bitcoin - sales which include hotel, Amtrak and airline bookings. The company began accepting the digital currency in November of last year following a request from a so-called "intrepid customer" who had asked whether or not he could use bitcoin to pay for an airline ticket. "If....
Digital currency enthusiasts browsing for cheap plane tickets and/or hotel bookings on the popular website Cheapair.com were greeted with a surprise today: Cheapair now accepts Litecoin and Dogecoin. Cheapair has partnered with GoCoin, currently the most established Litecoin and Dogecoin payment processor in the world. Litecoin and Dogecoin users around the world now have two options for booking planes and hotels online using their favorite cryptocurrency, whether that may be Bitcoin, Dogecoin, or Litecoin. Cheapair is a privately owned online travel agency that is based in California.....
It's been quite a while now since travel website CheapAir.com has started accepting bitcoin. About eight months, in fact. And now, it has been announced that the website has surpassed over $1.5 million in bitcoin revenue. Impressive! The travel site initially started their bitcoin-acceptance program with just flights, and later in February of this year announced they would also be accepting the digital currency for hotel bookings. The $1.5 million in revenue encompasses both airline tickets and hotel reservations purchased by thousands of customers, and will certainly go to show you that....
Latvia's national airline, airBaltic, is becoming one of the latest companies around the world to embrace digital currency. The airline - established in 1995 - confirmed the news via Twitter Monday morning in response to a public inquiry. The low-cost Latvian flag carrier has a fleet size 25 aircraft and flies to approximately 60 destinations, and will gladly take your bits, provided you're able and willing to cough up €5.99 to pay off a transaction fee. Users on Twitter were quick to fire back, with one user saying, "Transaction fee?, you might be a little confused on how bitcoin works."....