Airlines that accept Bitcoin as payment!

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Quote from: Herbert2020 on June 13, 2015, 09:15:09 AM

Quote from: mr.coinstrader on June 13, 2015, 08:40:10 AM

more price will go up, the more merchants will start accepting bitcoins. No merchant likes a falling currency. So it's better if people hold or buy.

i agree that increasing price will attract more merchants but i don't think that price has that big of an influence on the acceptance since they are not holding the coin and exchanging it to fiat right after they have received the payment in bitcoin.

But the price will increase only and only if the adoption level goes high and at present I dont think that adoption level is upto the mark as many of the countries are not aware about the bitcoin so the adoption of bicoin is far away at a moment and if it happens then thats the good news for the bitcoin community.

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Quote from: mr.coinstrader on June 13, 2015, 08:40:10 AM

more price will go up, the more merchants will start accepting bitcoins. No merchant likes a falling currency. So it's better if people hold or buy.

i agree that increasing price will attract more merchants but i don't think that price has that big of an influence on the acceptance since they are not holding the coin and exchanging it to fiat right after they have received the payment in bitcoin.

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more price will go up, the more merchants will start accepting bitcoins. No merchant likes a falling currency. So it's better if people hold or buy.

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Bitcoin and travel are a perfect fit. I gave a friend in Hungary some BTC for a coffee while I was lounging at home a few thousand miles away.

There are plenty of national currencies that you'd have a very hard time offloading on arrival in another country.

If you're a classier individual then privatefly.com will take your coins for your very own jet. Just 150,00 Euros from my local airport to Burma. One way of course.

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Quote from: unamis76 on June 03, 2015, 02:06:41 PM

Quote from: Lethn on June 03, 2015, 01:36:12 PM

Soon we'll be able to flee our respective countries by spending Bitcoin instead of fiat Cheesy

Talk about a perfect escape, huh? Cheesy

Leave our country only to find ourselves stuck in another corrupted fiat laden community.

It's good to hear this, allow the minor stake that they have in the market, it's probably going to open up to other small airlines and hopefully carry along to other major ones.

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Quote from: kenbytes on June 11, 2015, 08:45:01 PM

TAR Airlines is tiny one company. Still, any acceptance is good I guess

I agree.
although this is good news and will increase the publicity of bitcoin, those airlines are just some small businesses in Mexico and I don't think that this is going to have any significant influence on bitcoin especially on the price of bitcoin which is so low these days.

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TAR Airlines is tiny one company. Still, any acceptance is good I guess

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Quote from: Herbert2020 on June 04, 2015, 09:28:14 PM

Quote from: zendantom on June 04, 2015, 02:34:02 PM

Quote from: jeannemadrigal2 on June 03, 2015, 01:28:04 PM

This is a small step in the right direction. What if big airlines started doing this? Guys like American Airlines or Lufthansa? It is great to see this at airports because of international traffic. That means that not only will local people be exposed to the possibility of using bitcoins, but also people from around the globe who are flying through that airport.

Yes that would be great if all international airlines starts accepting bitcoin as a mode of payment. Just imagine you don't have to carry cash or credit card and you can travel cashless which would also save your money to convert your currency into the local currency of the country where you are travelling..it would be simply the best.

the sad thing is that most of the businesses see bitcoin payment method as an unnecessary addition to their business and think adding an extra option is more confusing rather than being useful.

Basically the factor is the employees themselves resist change. They don't show their interest in learning and knowing something new as they are so used to the traditional methods they view it as a complicated and unnecessary waste of time and this is applicable not only for airlines companies but for other companies too like banking they don't want any unnecessary addition to their system.

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Quote from: randy8777 on June 10, 2015, 04:36:04 PM

Quote from: nikona on June 10, 2015, 03:57:17 PM

Quote from: pooya87 on June 02, 2015, 11:31:29 PM

according to coindesk TAR, a Mexican Airline, started accepting bitcoin as payment.

http://www.coindesk.com/mexico-tar-latin-america-airline-bitcoin/

"In a statement, Jose Calzadias, commercial manager at TAR, said that the company, which serves 12 destinations throughout Mexico, would continue to evaluate payment options that give "real added value" to customers."

apparently there is another Latvian airline that started accepting bitcoin from July last year.

what do you think the effect of this is on bitcoin?

Most of the airlines or businesses that accept bitcoin usually use Bitpay as a payment processor. I believe it is actually very good for Bitcoin price, as Bitpay just this week announced that they don't sell the bitcoins on the exchange instantly. So these bitcoins are not dumped, and will probably be not dumped anytime soon. In a way this is actually good news for bitcoin as it is not being dumped and is increasing in its usage.

at some point the coins will get dumped. whether it is the next day or next week. they will get sold. they benefit when bitcoin price goes up, that's what they are waiting for.

Correct the coins will get dumped as airlines companies will wait for the right price to sell it and earn profit out of it. But for the customers of the airlines it would be really great if they can use their bitcoins as a mode of payment the payment can be made in fractions of seconds.

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Quote from: nikona on June 10, 2015, 03:57:17 PM

Quote from: pooya87 on June 02, 2015, 11:31:29 PM

according to coindesk TAR, a Mexican Airline, started accepting bitcoin as payment.

http://www.coindesk.com/mexico-tar-latin-america-airline-bitcoin/

"In a statement, Jose Calzadias, commercial manager at TAR, said that the company, which serves 12 destinations throughout Mexico, would continue to evaluate payment options that give "real added value" to customers."

apparently there is another Latvian airline that started accepting bitcoin from July last year.

what do you think the effect of this is on bitcoin?

Most of the airlines or businesses that accept bitcoin usually use Bitpay as a payment processor. I believe it is actually very good for Bitcoin price, as Bitpay just this week announced that they don't sell the bitcoins on the exchange instantly. So these bitcoins are not dumped, and will probably be not dumped anytime soon. In a way this is actually good news for bitcoin as it is not being dumped and is increasing in its usage.

at some point the coins will get dumped. whether it is the next day or next week. they will get sold. they benefit when bitcoin price goes up, that's what they are waiting for.

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Quote from: pooya87 on June 02, 2015, 11:31:29 PM

according to coindesk TAR, a Mexican Airline, started accepting bitcoin as payment.

http://www.coindesk.com/mexico-tar-latin-america-airline-bitcoin/

"In a statement, Jose Calzadias, commercial manager at TAR, said that the company, which serves 12 destinations throughout Mexico, would continue to evaluate payment options that give "real added value" to customers."

apparently there is another Latvian airline that started accepting bitcoin from July last year.

what do you think the effect of this is on bitcoin?

Most of the airlines or businesses that accept bitcoin usually use Bitpay as a payment processor. I believe it is actually very good for Bitcoin price, as Bitpay just this week announced that they don't sell the bitcoins on the exchange instantly. So these bitcoins are not dumped, and will probably be not dumped anytime soon. In a way this is actually good news for bitcoin as it is not being dumped and is increasing in its usage.

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Quote from: BTCevo on June 04, 2015, 08:16:52 AM

Quote from: okae on June 04, 2015, 06:23:13 AM

well i think that all those news about btc are always good for us, so from my point of view this is a good news.

because things like that maybe others will consider to do the same, who know?

now while flying ppl will ask to himself what's btc? Tongue

Yes indeed. This a great news to us, with airlines accepting bitcoin that will make people start to wondering what is bitcoin. This will help more people eager to know a lot of bitcoin and this is what we are gonna need to make the coin price is going higher. The more people curious the more higher will the price be Grin

Yes exactly that is fantastic news for the bitcoin community and it will make flying very much easier it will save lots of time and energy if all the airlines starts using bitcoin as a mode of payment and it will increase the awareness level of the people who are still away from bitcoins.

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Great News. Ive heard some blogs here that btc payment in airlines is now on the talk here in our country and proposals are made now. Nice. looking forward to this.

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Quote from: Error404 on June 05, 2015, 09:23:41 AM

Quote from: ilyasilyaso on June 05, 2015, 09:04:09 AM

i think thats big step and the bitcoin will invade all Economic transactions

in my opinion that is good because many peaple will know what's bitcoin and will be more known

where they can get bitcoin ? imagine when they see at airlines and they do not know and ask you what bitcoin is ? how do you explain that even you explain it they do not understand because even you explain there's a many definition of bitcoin many circumtances

at this stage i think now bitcoin is now not more complicated to explain when we have more informative material and so many social media campaign and giveaway about it, when people will look at new payment method with bitcoin sign they will get curiosity to know about it.

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Quote from: ilyasilyaso on June 05, 2015, 09:04:09 AM

i think thats big step and the bitcoin will invade all Economic transactions

in my opinion that is good because many peaple will know what's bitcoin and will be more known

where they can get bitcoin ? imagine when they see at airlines and they do not know and ask you what bitcoin is ? how do you explain that even you explain it they do not understand because even you explain there's a many definition of bitcoin many circumtances

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i think thats big step and the bitcoin will invade all Economic transactions

in my opinion that is good because many peaple will know what's bitcoin and will be more known

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Quote from: BTCevo on June 04, 2015, 08:16:52 AM

Quote from: okae on June 04, 2015, 06:23:13 AM

well i think that all those news about btc are always good for us, so from my point of view this is a good news.

because things like that maybe others will consider to do the same, who know?

now while flying ppl will ask to himself what's btc? Tongue

Yes indeed. This a great news to us, with airlines accepting bitcoin that will make people start to wondering what is bitcoin. This will help more people eager to know a lot of bitcoin and this is what we are gonna need to make the coin price is going higher. The more people curious the more higher will the price be Grin

Thats why there are some advantages and disadvantages of making btc as payment on airlines
because many people dont know what bitcoin are

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Quote from: zendantom on June 04, 2015, 02:34:02 PM

Quote from: jeannemadrigal2 on June 03, 2015, 01:28:04 PM

This is a small step in the right direction. What if big airlines started doing this? Guys like American Airlines or Lufthansa? It is great to see this at airports because of international traffic. That means that not only will local people be exposed to the possibility of using bitcoins, but also people from around the globe who are flying through that airport.

Yes that would be great if all international airlines starts accepting bitcoin as a mode of payment. Just imagine you don't have to carry cash or credit card and you can travel cashless which would also save your money to convert your currency into the local currency of the country where you are travelling..it would be simply the best.

the sad thing is that most of the businesses see bitcoin payment method as an unnecessary addition to their business and think adding an extra option is more confusing rather than being useful.

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Quote from: harizen on June 03, 2015, 01:32:47 PM

That's great. It's a big step of making BTC more popular to people especially in our country. If big airlines do that like my above poster said , some of airlines from other country will definitely consider to use BTC as a payment. And if that happens , all flight here in our country including "DOMESTIC" flight will use the same method. As of now we use BTC here as payment for prepaid loads, bills etc. If airlines will do then that's more great. Hope to see it in my country 5years or less from now.

I don't know which country you belong to?? but it would definitely take a long time for the airlines to accept bitcoin as a mode of payment as even if they start accepting it as a mode of payment but the main issue is the people should be aware about the bitcoin and in my country hardly anyone knows about the bitcoin.

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Quote from: jeannemadrigal2 on June 03, 2015, 01:28:04 PM

This is a small step in the right direction. What if big airlines started doing this? Guys like American Airlines or Lufthansa? It is great to see this at airports because of international traffic. That means that not only will local people be exposed to the possibility of using bitcoins, but also people from around the globe who are flying through that airport.

Yes that would be great if all international airlines starts accepting bitcoin as a mode of payment. Just imagine you don't have to carry cash or credit card and you can travel cashless which would also save your money to convert your currency into the local currency of the country where you are travelling..it would be simply the best.

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