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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?

This is definitely positive, but only a small step. Most people who use those airlines won't know about it. Won't look into what bitcoin is even if they see the payment option either. And mainstream news won't cover this. I don't expect bitcoin price to be affected either. But little by little it always helps.

I still think we need more accessible ways to safely store bitcoin and easily use it.

If it is faster to grab a creditcard than to use your bitcoin wallet, hardly anybody will use it.

Nevertheless, every company accepting bitcoin is one more that spreads te logo!

this is always nice, I think any kind of mass usage of bitcoin a good popularity to it.

but the important thing is, how many people are going to use it in a Mexican airline

if the extra option is just there but no one ever uses it, I think it is useless!

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.

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.

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

Talk about a perfect escape, huh? :D

as i think that is great step taken by TAR another great sign for bight future of bitcoin, some big airlines will follow this trend in near future and start accepting bitcoin as payment, i hope very soon we will hear some positive news from Sir Richard Branson Founder VIRGIN GROUP recently he hosted http://www.blockchainsummit.io/ on his private island will start accept payment in bitcoin for his Airline.

it sounds great finally we have an airline who start accepting bitcoin as payment, i am sure in future more airlines will be in line of bitcoin.

Agreed, the tap feature on my CC is very nice.

thanks for the info i've been looking for airline site that accepted bitcoin for their payment,i have a plan traveling with a flight in this month :D and bitcoin its a best solution for payment

apparently the first airline that was accepting bitcoin is something called airbaltic https://www.airbaltic.com/airbaltic-worlds-first-airline-to-accept-bitcoin

i thought this mexican company was the first, but it is all started long time ago

It's good but when the process are too slow it's not definitely helpfull for the people who arrive rush because it delay the time that they manage and some people didn't know bitcoin what really is

Richard Branson is a well known advocator of bitcoin & as everybody is aware runs one of the worlds most successful airlines.
I'm surprised he hasn't integrated bitcoin into his payment methods for flights yet, I presume he will at some point, I hope so any way, that'd be bullish.
Come on Richie you know it makes sense.

He may like Bitcoin personally but still he must think like a business person.
He is certainly aware that the vast majority of his users do not use bitcoin and also he probably see some shortcomings of BTC like unstable value in the market.
Nobody wants to lose money in business and intelligence always comes before feelings.
It's great that some small airlines companies accept Bitcoin but we are still far from full acceptance of BTC.

it is positive, and how to make more airline accept bitcoin is what we should consider, if it does work, the number of airlines which refuse bitcoin will have less reasons to unuse it.

Bitcoin really is perfect for that kind of thing though in all seriousness, can put it on a USB or somewhere safe on the internet while you travel, leave the country and open a bank account somewhere else where the country you left can't freeze it.

Which is exactly what I'll be doing when I have the money to.

you can tattoo your public key on your forearm to keep your address with you forever. and you can upload your encrypted wallet file on the cloud or something to have access to it everyewhere. :)

but are you planning to run away and be a fugitive that what this, where do you live, if i may ask?

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? :P

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 ;D

So anybody here that have used the bitcoin as payment for your airlines ticket? If so, you can share it. But IMO it is still new thing for people. For bitcoin development, you must introduce what bitcoin is to people, and after that you can make any transaction market with it

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.