CheapAir Now Accepts Bitcoin for Amtrak Railway Bookings
California-based airfare and hotel booking provider CheapAir.com has announced it is now accepting bitcoin for Amtrak railway reservations completed on its platform. The move is the latest in a broad rollout of bitcoin payments across the company's services, starting with flights in November before continuing to CheapAir's network of 200,000 hotels in February. CheapAir added Amtrak listings to its site in April, but has only just completed the necessary back-end work to accept bitcoin payments for the travel option. Speaking to CoinDesk, CEO Jeff Klee suggested that this measured rollout....
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CheapAir.com has announced that it will now accept dogecoin and litecoin as payment for flight and railway bookings. The online travel booking website began accepting bitcoin for flight bookings in November, and subsequently expanded its bitcoin payment service to include hotel and railway bookings. Since adding bitcoin as a payment option, CheapAir has seen a positive response from its customers, recently announcing that it had passed $1.5m in total bitcoin sales. Speaking to CoinDesk, CEO Jeff Klee said that the decision was encouraged by grassroots support from its customer base, noting....
California-based online travel booking website CheapAir.com has announced that it has completed more than $1.5m in bitcoin sales on flights, hotels and Amtrak bookings via its platform. With the announcement, CheapAir joins Overstock as the second traditional e-commerce player in the bitcoin ecosystem to reveal that it has completed more than $1.5m in sales. Overstock disclosed that its figures topped $1.6m in May. Speaking to CoinDesk, CheapAir CEOJeff Klee suggested that the numbers are a testament to the loyalty of bitcoin users who have remained committed to the company even in the....
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.....
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....
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....