Topic: Almost any airline ticket can now be bought using bitcoin! - page 2. (Read 2462 times)
Um, can't you already use this bitcoin debit card anywhere where you can use a normal debit card? I thought that was the point of it so I don't know why you just specified airlines.
Your "almost" is a very exaggerated word.
Apart from the 2 Airlines that accept bitcon directly for tickets
http://www.coindesk.com/air-lituanica-shows-bitcoins-use-travel-taking-flight/
ALL airlines that accept debit/credit cards for payment..(which is about 100%) can issue tickets with payment via Xapo bitcoin loaded debit card.
Note ..Xapo..PLEASE get those cards delivered faster!!!!!!!
Cost comparison
1Apart from $ purchases in the USA which will incur an additional 3% cost. If you pay in local/ home / non US$ currency there is effectively a 3% cost to use Xapo but it may well be the case that the $ ticket price and the local currency ticket price has a similar ( or worse) price differential as airlines make the majority of their payments ( fuel/airport fees etc) in $'s so it is VERY likely that in this scenario using Xapo is equal or better to using local non $ denominated currency.
2 If you are buying a ticket in a foreign country and you are $/Euro or UK pound (card/income) base the transaction fees and exchange rate spread charged to you will 90% + of the time be equal or worse than the 3% Xapo cost.
So Once you FINALLY get a Xapo card any airline ticket may be purchased and that price will be competitive or better depending which country you are buying it in and what is your home currency.!
Examples
http://www.theguardian.com/money/2011/jan/23/booking-flight-airline-websites
Advantage of buying return ticket from the foreign Country you are traveling to
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7105307
That actual works as well, don't book anything from South Africa I found out as I was booking my mates flights. You could knock several hundred off by going through an Australian or UK proxy. I believe from memory it was the same agency as well. Just changing the domain brought up vastly different prices on the same flights.
But no as I mentioned above lots of holiday destinations have cheap tickets inbound, but out bound are expensive. I first noticed it travelling from London to Croatia.
It was like $200 flight to Split, but the flight home was double or triple. I hopped on a proxy, and found I could get the reverse deal from Split to London. $200 to London, $600 back home to split. So I started gaming the system.
The agencies are hedging on the fact you have to take the return flight. So they coerce you into the cheap flight to location X, but claw the money back with the return flight which I guess the vast majority of people have to take.
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http://www.coindesk.com/air-lituanica-shows-bitcoins-use-travel-taking-flight/
ALL airlines that accept debit/credit cards for payment..(which is about 100%) can issue tickets with payment via Xapo bitcoin loaded debit card.
Note ..Xapo..PLEASE get those cards delivered faster!!!!!!!
Cost comparison
1Apart from $ purchases in the USA which will incur an additional 3% cost. If you pay in local/ home / non US$ currency there is effectively a 3% cost to use Xapo but it may well be the case that the $ ticket price and the local currency ticket price has a similar ( or worse) price differential as airlines make the majority of their payments ( fuel/airport fees etc) in $'s so it is VERY likely that in this scenario using Xapo is equal or better to using local non $ denominated currency.
2 If you are buying a ticket in a foreign country and you are $/Euro or UK pound (card/income) base the transaction fees and exchange rate spread charged to you will 90% + of the time be equal or worse than the 3% Xapo cost.
So Once you FINALLY get a Xapo card any airline ticket may be purchased and that price will be competitive or better depending which country you are buying it in and what is your home currency.!
Examples
http://www.theguardian.com/money/2011/jan/23/booking-flight-airline-websites
Advantage of buying return ticket from the foreign Country you are traveling to
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7105307
That actual works as well, don't book anything from South Africa I found out as I was booking my mates flights. You could knock several hundred off by going through an Australian or UK proxy. I believe from memory it was the same agency as well. Just changing the domain brought up vastly different prices on the same flights.
But no as I mentioned above lots of holiday destinations have cheap tickets inbound, but out bound are expensive. I first noticed it travelling from London to Croatia.
It was like $200 flight to Split, but the flight home was double or triple. I hopped on a proxy, and found I could get the reverse deal from Split to London. $200 to London, $600 back home to split. So I started gaming the system.
The agencies are hedging on the fact you have to take the return flight. So they coerce you into the cheap flight to location X, but claw the money back with the return flight which I guess the vast majority of people have to take.
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I been waiting forever for those xapo cards to get delivered, the ones who got them were the one who advertised them on twitter and facebook, this what they said to me in a email.
Great news, this can surely help to spread the word about bitcoins and increase its adoption.
Great, good thing! Those meta-services are a great thing, we can buy from various sources of our choice by simply using such a service! This is a great way to spread bitcoin adoption or at least the possibility of using bitcoin to a lot of people at once!
wow, want to buy two tickets for Havana!!! 
I don't think this quite counts as buying something with bitcoin. You could make the same argument if you were to say that you can buy widgets with bitcoin by first selling your bitcoin on an exchange then using that fiat to buy the widgets. The fact that you first need to convert your bitcoin to fiat means that you are really paying via fiat, not bitcoin.
This is all that xapo is doing when you pay with their debit card.
This is all that xapo is doing when you pay with their debit card.
Another good hope for bitcoin investors, hopefully bitcoin will rise now!
That's an excellent news. I am expecting a great hike in BTC rates!
I am happy about my investment I did!!
I am happy about my investment I did!!
Apart from the 2 Airlines that accept bitcon directly for tickets
http://www.coindesk.com/air-lituanica-shows-bitcoins-use-travel-taking-flight/
ALL airlines that accept debit/credit cards for payment..(which is about 100%) can issue tickets with payment via Xapo bitcoin loaded debit card.
Note ..Xapo..PLEASE get those cards delivered faster!!!!!!!
Cost comparison
1Apart from $ purchases in the USA which will incur an additional 3% cost. If you pay in local/ home / non US$ currency there is effectively a 3% cost to use Xapo but it may well be the case that the $ ticket price and the local currency ticket price has a similar ( or worse) price differential as airlines make the majority of their payments ( fuel/airport fees etc) in $'s so it is VERY likely that in this scenario using Xapo is equal or better to using local non $ denominated currency.
2 If you are buying a ticket in a foreign country and you are $/Euro or UK pound (card/income) base the transaction fees and exchange rate spread charged to you will 90% + of the time be equal or worse than the 3% Xapo cost.
So Once you FINALLY get a Xapo card any airline ticket may be purchased and that price will be competitive or better depending which country you are buying it in and what is your home currency.!
Examples
http://www.theguardian.com/money/2011/jan/23/booking-flight-airline-websites
Advantage of buying return ticket from the foreign Country you are traveling to
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7105307
That actual works as well, don't book anything from South Africa I found out as I was booking my mates flights. You could knock several hundred off by going through an Australian or UK proxy. I believe from memory it was the same agency as well. Just changing the domain brought up vastly different prices on the same flights.
But no as I mentioned above lots of holiday destinations have cheap tickets inbound, but out bound are expensive. I first noticed it travelling from London to Croatia.
It was like $200 flight to Split, but the flight home was double or triple. I hopped on a proxy, and found I could get the reverse deal from Split to London. $200 to London, $600 back home to split. So I started gaming the system.
The agencies are hedging on the fact you have to take the return flight. So they coerce you into the cheap flight to location X, but claw the money back with the return flight which I guess the vast majority of people have to take.
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It's a good thing to hear bitcoin is also getting stick to the airlines.Soon very soon we are getting to pay with bitcoin in our nearest stores http://www.coindesk.com/air-lituanica-shows-bitcoins-use-travel-taking-flight/
ALL airlines that accept debit/credit cards for payment..(which is about 100%) can issue tickets with payment via Xapo bitcoin loaded debit card.
Note ..Xapo..PLEASE get those cards delivered faster!!!!!!!
Cost comparison
1Apart from $ purchases in the USA which will incur an additional 3% cost. If you pay in local/ home / non US$ currency there is effectively a 3% cost to use Xapo but it may well be the case that the $ ticket price and the local currency ticket price has a similar ( or worse) price differential as airlines make the majority of their payments ( fuel/airport fees etc) in $'s so it is VERY likely that in this scenario using Xapo is equal or better to using local non $ denominated currency.
2 If you are buying a ticket in a foreign country and you are $/Euro or UK pound (card/income) base the transaction fees and exchange rate spread charged to you will 90% + of the time be equal or worse than the 3% Xapo cost.
So Once you FINALLY get a Xapo card any airline ticket may be purchased and that price will be competitive or better depending which country you are buying it in and what is your home currency.!
Examples
http://www.theguardian.com/money/2011/jan/23/booking-flight-airline-websites
Advantage of buying return ticket from the foreign Country you are traveling to
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7105307
That actual works as well, don't book anything from South Africa I found out as I was booking my mates flights. You could knock several hundred off by going through an Australian or UK proxy. I believe from memory it was the same agency as well. Just changing the domain brought up vastly different prices on the same flights.
But no as I mentioned above lots of holiday destinations have cheap tickets inbound, but out bound are expensive. I first noticed it travelling from London to Croatia.
It was like $200 flight to Split, but the flight home was double or triple. I hopped on a proxy, and found I could get the reverse deal from Split to London. $200 to London, $600 back home to split. So I started gaming the system.
The agencies are hedging on the fact you have to take the return flight. So they coerce you into the cheap flight to location X, but claw the money back with the return flight which I guess the vast majority of people have to take.
-----
Apart from the 2 Airlines that accept bitcon directly for tickets
http://www.coindesk.com/air-lituanica-shows-bitcoins-use-travel-taking-flight/
ALL airlines that accept debit/credit cards for payment..(which is about 100%) can issue tickets with payment via Xapo bitcoin loaded debit card.
Note ..Xapo..PLEASE get those cards delivered faster!!!!!!!
Cost comparison
1Apart from $ purchases in the USA which will incur an additional 3% cost. If you pay in local/ home / non US$ currency there is effectively a 3% cost to use Xapo but it may well be the case that the $ ticket price and the local currency ticket price has a similar ( or worse) price differential as airlines make the majority of their payments ( fuel/airport fees etc) in $'s so it is VERY likely that in this scenario using Xapo is equal or better to using local non $ denominated currency.
2 If you are buying a ticket in a foreign country and you are $/Euro or UK pound (card/income) base the transaction fees and exchange rate spread charged to you will 90% + of the time be equal or worse than the 3% Xapo cost.
So Once you FINALLY get a Xapo card any airline ticket may be purchased and that price will be competitive or better depending which country you are buying it in and what is your home currency.!
Examples
http://www.theguardian.com/money/2011/jan/23/booking-flight-airline-websites
Advantage of buying return ticket from the foreign Country you are traveling to
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7105307
That actual works as well, don't book anything from South Africa I found out as I was booking my mates flights. You could knock several hundred off by going through an Australian or UK proxy. I believe from memory it was the same agency as well. Just changing the domain brought up vastly different prices on the same flights.
But no as I mentioned above lots of holiday destinations have cheap tickets inbound, but out bound are expensive. I first noticed it travelling from London to Croatia.
It was like $200 flight to Split, but the flight home was double or triple. I hopped on a proxy, and found I could get the reverse deal from Split to London. $200 to London, $600 back home to split. So I started gaming the system.
The agencies are hedging on the fact you have to take the return flight. So they coerce you into the cheap flight to location X, but claw the money back with the return flight which I guess the vast majority of people have to take.
-----
http://www.coindesk.com/air-lituanica-shows-bitcoins-use-travel-taking-flight/
ALL airlines that accept debit/credit cards for payment..(which is about 100%) can issue tickets with payment via Xapo bitcoin loaded debit card.
Note ..Xapo..PLEASE get those cards delivered faster!!!!!!!
Cost comparison
1Apart from $ purchases in the USA which will incur an additional 3% cost. If you pay in local/ home / non US$ currency there is effectively a 3% cost to use Xapo but it may well be the case that the $ ticket price and the local currency ticket price has a similar ( or worse) price differential as airlines make the majority of their payments ( fuel/airport fees etc) in $'s so it is VERY likely that in this scenario using Xapo is equal or better to using local non $ denominated currency.
2 If you are buying a ticket in a foreign country and you are $/Euro or UK pound (card/income) base the transaction fees and exchange rate spread charged to you will 90% + of the time be equal or worse than the 3% Xapo cost.
So Once you FINALLY get a Xapo card any airline ticket may be purchased and that price will be competitive or better depending which country you are buying it in and what is your home currency.!
Examples
http://www.theguardian.com/money/2011/jan/23/booking-flight-airline-websites
Advantage of buying return ticket from the foreign Country you are traveling to
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7105307
That actual works as well, don't book anything from South Africa I found out as I was booking my mates flights. You could knock several hundred off by going through an Australian or UK proxy. I believe from memory it was the same agency as well. Just changing the domain brought up vastly different prices on the same flights.
But no as I mentioned above lots of holiday destinations have cheap tickets inbound, but out bound are expensive. I first noticed it travelling from London to Croatia.
It was like $200 flight to Split, but the flight home was double or triple. I hopped on a proxy, and found I could get the reverse deal from Split to London. $200 to London, $600 back home to split. So I started gaming the system.
The agencies are hedging on the fact you have to take the return flight. So they coerce you into the cheap flight to location X, but claw the money back with the return flight which I guess the vast majority of people have to take.
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