CheapAir.com Now Accepts Dogecoin, Litecoin

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 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....

CheapAir, the first mainstream online travel agency to offer customers the option to pay in bitcoin, litecoin and dogecoin, is now first U. S. company to provide its customers the opportunity to fly to Cuba. Although recent changes have lifted many travel restrictions to Cuba, there are still limitations. CheapAir's website reads:"U. S. citizens and residents are only permitted to travel to Cuba for one of 12 authorized reasons. They are: family visits; official business of the U. S. government, foreign governments, and certain intergovernmental organizations; journalistic activity;....

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....

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....