Topic: [ANN] BtcTrip - Flying with Bitcoins (Read 5186 times)

Revamped website looks great 

Is BtcTrip down? I try to book but is didnt work.

BTCTrip: We are all Satoshi Nakamoto

Dear Bitcoiners,
My name is Martin Fernandez, I am BTCTrip’s CEO, the first travel portal for the Bitcoin community.

Satoshi Nakamoto has been the most important inspiration for me to step inside the Bitcoin world. I never thought about it in speculative terms, but in terms of freedom and a new social paradigm.

I read today that several communication media bother a very modest person called Dorian Nakamoto. He has denied being Satoshi, but media keeps disturbing him.

Here, at BTCTrip, we are planning to offer him and his six children a trip to Buenos Aires, and from there to the Argentinian Patagonia. One of the most beautiful places in the world.

If any of you contact Dorian, please let him know about BTCTrip’s invitation.

I was delighted to read today that Andreas Antonopoulos is fundraising money for Dorian ( http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1ztjmg/andreas_im_fundraising_for_dorian_nakamoto/ ). I met Andreas in Buenos Aires, what an incredible person!

CheapAir has made a similar invitation, wich is great. The only inaccurate statement (once again) was to declare "CheapAir.com, the first travel site to accept Bitcoin". This is not true. BTCTrip is the first Bitcoin Comunnity’s travel portal (and we only accept bitcoins).

If you want to support us across social networks, we will appreciate your comments in favor to BTCTrip. Ours is a much smaller business and has a much smaller Marketing budget than a megasite.

We grow day by day thanks to the Bitcoin Community.

From here on, this message is for Satoshi Nakamoto, wherever you are:

We thank you for this gift called "Bitcoin"

All information should be free.


ALL THE BEST, BTCTRIP

Just bought 2 more tickets - this time to Bangkok. Big fan of the site, keep up the good work!

Dear Bitcoiners,

We are writting to thank you all for the support you gave us and for making our growth possible inside the Bitcoin community.

Cheers to all who visited us at our BTC Miami Conference stand. We've been very happy to see you!!

For us, at BTCTrip, we are ALL a new nationality: "We are Bitcoiners!"

• We want to welcome Nicolas Cary (CEO at BlockChain.info) as our new BTCTrip Advisor
• Want to know who we are? Now, you can check it out at http://btctrip.com/about_us
• The New York Times mentioned us in one of their articles http://intransit.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/07/rewards-program-tries-bitcoin/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0
• New promo: Insanity Cheap Business Class tickets.
• And best for last: We reduced our prices 5%!

All de Best from BTCTrip Team

Just wanted to let you guys know about my experience.

I just booked a flight from Germany to Spain. After comparing various discount offers, where it took me a few minutes every time to click "no I don't want this and that insurance" every time surcharges for credit card payments and sometimes taxes were added increasing the price a lot.
In the end I could have booked the same flight from another provider with a complicated booking process for $25 less, but decided to try BtcTrip.

The booking itself is perfect, the available flights are displayed very conveniently and you just select a flight, enter your name, scan the Bitpay QR-Code and it displays "Invoice paid". Great!

Unfortunately what follows is not what I'd expect from an online booking. I get this http://imgur.com/ugRoCxt screen and clicking I have paid does not make anything happen. So I'm stuck here (latest Firefox).

Now since I read about shantee's experiences I will just wait a few days for my ticket to (hopefully) arrive, but if I hadn't read this thread I would be clueless about whether
a) The booking worked and I'm not ending up without a flight and my Bitcoins, having to book the flight again at a (likely) higher price
b) I will get the tickets any time soon

Please understand this as constructive feedback, I absolutely like what you guys are doing, but I wouldn't tell my parents to use it yet, even though they have (and use) Bitcoins.

Update: No confirmation/ticket after 36 hours, sent them a mail now.
Update2: Got a quick reply that there was a server error, had to resend my personal data, flight seems to be reserved now and since the price dropped a little in the meantime I'll get a little refund. So I'm pleased with the customer service and hoping to get my ticket soon
Update3: Ok, so I got my ticket and the confirmation shows the correct dates, but when I log in to the airline, the return date is wrong Have to get back to support. (Looks like it's their wholesaler's fault as the confirmation mail from BTCTrip has the correct dates)
Update4: Got the corrected ticket and the price difference refund now. Looking forward to the flight!

Conclusion: The whole process seems to be "alpha", considering how many things went wrong in my case. However the customer service is great, so if you have some time and are enthusiastic about Bitcoin I'd still recommend to use it

Good to hear!

Ok everything went well,  I am back home (thank you btctrip ^^)

now i know where im buying my next plane ticket at

I see. Good to hear Have fun in Berlin!

Well , I was actually beginning to doubt , but I just got a mail from their customer service  (a very fast reply from a message i sent them less than 20 min ago !).
So yep, I still don't have my ticket n but at least I am reassured . I think they are ok, they just need a couple of day.

I 'll confirm when I ll be back from Berlin ^^

I fear for you dude.

...So wednesday (the 1st)  I bought a plane ticket there (Berlin -> Paris) .  I paid, got my receipt and about an hour after all I got was an email saying this


Till now I haven't received anything else from them. That's not really reassuring , especially knowing that I booked this flight for next tuesday. So now I am wondering , is this site still working ? has it become a scam ? Does anybody got some good review booking a plane ticket on btctrip ? (or maybe I just worry too much and it's just "normal" ?)

will also use it next time I need to take a flight somewhere.

great service, I hope you will keep it up and running.

Pale Phoenix got a good point about the webpage, it is extremely important to keep the webpage up to date, because this is the first thing me and everyone else is judging when we're trying to decide if this is still legit.

This is really innovative, i can see it going places 

Thanks Jack!

Have a good trip!

Awesome service, will use it next time I need to fly.

By the way, love the vipassana advertisement 

Just bought 2 tickets from UK to Spain with BtcTrip - thanks!
 

Howdy Martin. Getting in the WoT would be a good move for this credibility stuff.

^ Ah, great! Looking forward to seeing it.

Thank you for the advice!
Fixed.

We forgot it cause we are so focused redesigning the new home page

Just a bit of friendly advice... keep the graphics on your front page updated. I just visited to check on a flight but when I see ads for events from earlier this year it makes me wonder if you're still operating and erodes confidence in the brand.

Thank for you comment vlees.

You are right, still we don't can show the best prices for all the airlines.
We are working in the integration with other flight search engines to the actual one.

By the way, we can get manually that flight ticket cheaper by a email request.


Regards,
BtcTrip Team

Thank you for you feedback,
have a good trip!

I use Google Chrome too, but did not have that problem.

In Google Chrome I needed to double click the buy button.
Also as a test I tried to search for tickets from AMS -> JFK -> AMS. Go on September 9, return on September 23.

Skyscanner found a flight for 530EUR (http://www.travel2be.nl/HtmlRedirectT2BNL2/AMS/NYC/1/0/0/09-09-2013/23-09-2013/RT/false/true/d9aZEXNL/TEPyUXlTe0yv2nwn65l2Z760HAh336DbvJRsAwYYYaTCB1QVCOTRruZNJ4p46xAZqiJi99qpeiGV0Nx2mahdvg==/?cmp=d9aZEXNL no idea if this link works for anyone but me) but your site had 570EUR as cheapest.

The one via SkyScanner used Air Europa

18:15 AMS – 12:40 JFK
1 tussenstop MAD
24 u. 25 min. (+1) (total travel time, yes, 24 h )

return:
22:05 JFK – 15:40 AMS
1 tussenstop MAD
11 u. 35 min. (+1)

you found:
OUTBOUND Amsterdam, AMS
Nueva York, JFK
Monday 9 september, 2013
Depart: 16:20 Arrive: 22:05 11h 45m 1 Stop British Airways British Airways

INBOUND Nueva York, JFK
Amsterdam, AMS
Monday 23 september, 2013
Depart: 19:45 Arrive: 18:10 16h 25m 1 Stop British Airways British Airways

Not interested in this flight but I just thought "let's check it out".

Damn, this looks great. Well done!

Neat 

Just wanna post that I've booked one ticket and about to book another through btctrip, they price matched one I found on another site. I'm very happy with the service and will continue to use them from now on.

Booking a ticket at the mo so I hope it'll go well. Paid via Bitpay.

You are right, it is an internationalization bug.
Now, all the prices are expressed in usd except the one of the checkout form that detail the total price in usd and btc. The prices in dollars use comma as decimal separator and the price in bitcoins use the dot as decimal separator.

We are working on fixing it.

Thank you!

top OP, any chance you can add southwest as an airline? They are usually the cheapest here in states.

Possible via the magic of typos. I'm sure it's supposed to say BTC 1.183.

Wait? How's that possible?

Wow he wasn't joking, these really are the cheapest flights I've ever seen.


That's like, a little over 0.01 BTC.

Good luck to you then. 

Dear Bitcoin Community

I'm Martin Fernandez, the BtcTrip.com CEO. As I'm writing this, I'm based in LA and on my way to NYC.

Our website has been launched in a very hostile environment of the international policies trying to hold back Bitcoin development. If you are really committed to Bitcoin and freedom, we are looking for your support and attention.

Btctrip.com is a discounted airfares website which eliminates all third parties and their fees. Also thanks to automation, our staff expenses are significantly lower. Being BTC traders ourselves allows us to transfer margin into discounts for you.

Our mission is not only to sell plane tickets. We are embracing the Bitcoin community more than anything else by creating a business which caters to a new millenium client. Our investors, to whom we are very grateful for their support are well known figures from within startup community.

As we do really care about your trust and our credibility, you can buy all the tickets using escrow service.


Kind regards

For anyone who can write a review for BtcTrip.com, we are offering an incredible discount of 10% in any flight ticket.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/btctripcom-making-your-flights-cheaper-10-discount-in-any-flight-ticket-240757

Has anyone used this service and can provide feedback?

Will send by PM

Edit: But seriously, you made my day! I've been waiting for a service like this for a long time. Wish you the best of luck, and hope you're still around next time I need to go somewhere.

May be a bug, we are still in beta.

What SO and browser are using you?

Thank you so much, this is great!

But I wonder if I have found a bug - nothing happens when I click the "Buy" button after searching for tickets...

In order to help to the Bitcoin mainstream adoption, we are offering the cheapest airlines tickets.

If you find it cheaper somewhere else, we'll beat any offer!

That's cool!  Does it comes with Bitcoin Air Miles?

Dear Bitcoin Community

We are happy to announce that BtcTrip.com has been released! It's the first plane tickets website to accept only Bitcoins as a payment option.

We kindly ask you as a community (what we are proud to be part of) to help us out test it beta version and spread a word! We've prepared special discounts for those who help us get traction!

We hope many will find us offering Bitcoins only offers a good reason to get started with Bitcoins.


Bitcoins, flying gets cheaper!
BtcTrip Team