CheapAir.com Brings in Over $1.5 Million in Bitcoin Payments
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....
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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....
Good news if you're a cryptocurrency enthusiast and a traveler that uses CheapAir.com. The Calabasas, California-based service, which is well known in the community for their accepting of bitcoin payments has expanded their crypto-related reach by now accepting dogecoin and litecoin. The company hinted at accepting the two digital currencies not terribly long ago on Twitter with the following tweet: @BtcTrip @Destinia @bitcoinmallorca @amuda Well, sure! And we love #dogecoin and #litecoin too! You'll see... 😉 viva la revolucion! - CheapAir ✈ (@CheapAir) August 29, 2014. The service allows....
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....
Pioneering Bitcoin merchant CheapAir has seen equivalent 74% increases in Bitcoin purchases in the past six months. CheapAir: ‘Accepting Bitcoin Has Been Great for Us’. As Bitcoin remains around all-time highs, the company said recent growth had had a dramatic effect on sales of air tickets bought with the cryptocurrency. “Accepting bitcoin has been great for us,” CEO Jeff Klee said in a press release Thursday. CheapAir began accepting Bitcoin for its flight and hotel bookings in 2013 at the request of a customer. Since then, the company has processed cryptocurrency payments worth around....
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.....