Polish Airline Accepting Bitcoin
LOT Polish Airlines will now be accepting Bitcoin along with normal payment options. The decision comes with a fair bit of enthusiasm toward the digital currency, as expressed in their press release: Payment with Bitcoins is easy in execution, and equally secure as other payment methods. All transactions are handled by PSP - one of the most reputable and popular platforms handling payments with the online currency. Also read: Planes, Trains and Bitcoin. US customers have long had an option for paying for flights with Bitcoin in CheapAir.com, a travel agency that has been booking flights....
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More and more online merchants and companies across various industries are starting to accept bitcoin payments. LOT Polish Airlines recently announced that they will be taking in cryptocurrency transactions to pay for flights through their desktop and mobile websites. Aside from bitcoin, LOT Polish Airlines also accepts payments through credit cards and PayPal. For now, the airline company doesn't directly accept bitcoin payments but it exchanges the cryptocurrency for fiat using a service provider. Bitcoin Payments and Travel. Frequent travellers seem to be accustomed to using bitcoin....
Another airline is joining the bitcoin boat (or should we say plane?). This time around it is Air Lituanica, a small airline based in Lithuania that operated scheduled flights throughout Europe. The announcement was made this week via the airline's official Twitter account, noted that the digital currency (referred to as "bit-coin" in the tweet) can be used for ticket purchases on all flights. The airline, which operates a fleet of 86-seat Embraer 175 aircraft, carries out regional flights from a number of cities, of which include Paris, Amsterdam, Vilnius, and Prague. We are now accepting....
Updated with comment from BitPay. Latvian airline airBaltic has decided to eliminate its controversial transaction charge on bitcoin purchases. Earlier this week, the firm became the first European airline to accept bitcoin for flight bookings. The news was covered by digital currency news outlets and even some mainstream media, putting Latvia firmly on the cryptocurrency map. However, enthusiasm soon waned after it emerged that the airline was still charging its standard €5.99 fee on bitcoin transactions - the same as customers paying with a credit card. Prompt u-turn. The airline....
One of the United Arab Emirates (UAE)’s leading airlines, Emirates Airline, said it has plans to add “bitcoin as a payment service.” The airline is planning to recruit personnel to create applications that monitor client needs.
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The United Arab Emirates (UAE)’s leading airline, Emirates Airline, will soon embrace “bitcoin as a payment service,” the company’s chief operating officer (COO) Adel Ahmed Al-Redha has said. In addition, the airline will add non-fungible token (NFT) collectibles on....
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....