CheapAir Records 74% Increase In Bitcoin Sales as Price Grows
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....
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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....
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....
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.....