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Its now possible!

With this: http://bitforum.info/t/bitnet-and-uatp-partnership-will-allow-users-to-use-bitcoin-for-travel-tickets/264?u=thebitboss

250 airlines? That is a pretty big number.

Anyone here already using bitcoin for flight tickets?

On my state , Indonesia , still not implement that yet.
But I'm waiting for it cause using bitcoin as the payment will speed up my transaction.

I've never been on a plane in my life.

dont use that. its dangerous! we should ban it.

You should try paying for your first air travel with BTC.! :)

ahaha thi is nice!!!

if you think at the airplane, it is the most secure

consider how many fatal car accidents in the day there are ...
and how many fatal accidents in air per day, there are ...

the plane definitely wins !!!

Expedia allows Bitcoin payment for hotel bookings. Expect them to add flight bookings soon too, though I don't see much benefit in that. Hotel booking I can understand if one is looking for some anonymity.

YEah paying for hotels with BTC is cool..but I still dont think it wll be anonymous.. as Im sure the hotel will ask for some sort of ID of yours..b4 u check in.. So not anonymous..unless uve faked the ID's.! :P

Now you can do that by sending 1's and 0's to someone.

I remember there being a site which accepted bitcoin for air tickets. Does anyone remember their name ?
And why don't you try expedia .heard they accept bitcoin.

At the moment, not from where I live but hope to see it become a reality someday. And that doesn't mean only on flight tickets but just about everything we can buy using bitcoin.

Was it this one??

http://www.sky-tours.com/

That's awesome. I hope to become bitcoin rich and buy my own private jet. Painted in bitcoins.  ;D

I have sometimes paid in cash for hotel rooms. They usually wanted a scan of my passport if I wanted to pay in cash. If I had paid by credit card they might not have needed it, but there was no way to stay there without proving who you were. Bitcoin would probably be treated like a cash payment and need a passport scan.

Could anyone please post a link to the webpage of the airline company where it is actually possible to pay with BTC. Thanks a lot.

I don't want to spoil the party, but Expedia does not accept BTC (no difference for flights or hotels, at least in Europe), nor does British Airways, Easyjet, Ryanair, KLM or any company I've traveled with recently.

A simple google willgive out lot of result. Here is one of them : http://www.cheapair.com/help/payment-and-billing/what-is-bitcoin/
But you will have to do your study if most of the companies are legit.

I found this one to work very well in the past:

https://btctrip.com/

I had a small problem and they responded instantly.

i hear about that first time...it looks coll....il try it :)

I wish I didnt miss the early investor boat to be able to travel all around the world using btc only.

There is also a Travelkings thread in the service section, who is selling tickets at upto 60% off, if its not urgent, then thaat might be worth a try as well

Expedia does accept bitcoin. Here is a page on their site about it http://www.expedia.com/Checkout/BitcoinTermsAndConditions

YEah travelkings sounds like a good deal..some positive response to it as well

I think the very first airfare booking service to accept it a couple years ago was CheapAir:

http://www.cheapair.com/help/payment-and-billing/what-is-bitcoin/

More sites and more ways to book just make it easier for Bitcoin acceptance, and brings it into the public eye more and more.

Last year was huge as far as travel websites go, with Expedia accepting Bitcoin for hotel reservations:

http://viewfinder.expedia.com/features/expedia-embraces-bitcoin

I dont think I have enough Bitcoin to buy a cheap ticket yet. Where can I find a list of the 250 airlines?

That's pretty nice , 250 Airlines is a pretty big number as you said . nice to see bitcoin expending over the world on different things and areas
Too bad it's not available where I live . Algeria Airlines  :-\

~ Madness

Yes, it's a good site, but when I compared its prices to my local travel guide sites, it's far more expensive than many of the other services out there...

let alone for it, for bitcoin only in Indonesia is still illegal. and there are still many devices that do not support bitcoin in Indonesia

Btctrip.com

All right, thanks a lot! This is getting useful.

3 companies to buy flight tickets with BTC:

http://www.sky-tours.com/ (http://www.sky-tours.com/)
https://btctrip.com/ (https://btctrip.com/)
https://www.cheapair.com/ (https://www.cheapair.com/)

Back to Expedia, I'm afraid their service doesn't accept BTC in Europe.

Don't forget if you got enough BTC stashed away, you can even go to space!

http://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/bitcoins-in-space

http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/article_large/hash/3e/e3/3ee3e0bad57a026319e2153ca6c83b3e.jpg?itok=YmtIfrQk

http://skift.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/virgin.jpeg

http://o.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/adam/51a6a2382622cdca616823cb6ae1084/bitcoin.jpg

Yep, the possibilities are endless with Bitcoin when you think about it.  To infinity and beyond!

That will be great..

Taxi fares maybe next?

I think this is not so brand new. Bitcoin has been accepting tix since last year.

Man! that is awesome , is that for real?
That must be pretty expensive :(

Then take into account how many cars there are in the world to how many planes are flying in the world you catch my drift  ;)

Will look into paying for flights further funny i have only just seen anything about it thanks for links an idea etc OP.

A Plan is anytime more safer. Car accidentshappen due to human mistakes. Planes crash due to system and natural causes , which don't happen that often.

Cheapair.com!

It's been possible for coming up to 2 years.

I've successfully used BTCTrip (https://btctrip.com/) twice.  It's built up a decent reputation in this time.  Even Satoshi's given a testimonial!

This is great new, really!
A lot people traveling now to very far destinations and searching the cheapest solutions for their flight tickets.
This can help bitcoin to become more popular way of payment and mainstream for such digital product in high demand online.

i think its been possible to buy flight tickets with bitcoin for 1-2 years now man

you can pay hotel with cash if you want to stay anonymous you don't reach anonymity with BTC alone. hotels will ask for ID

Well, it doesn't. At least not in the country where I'm staying. Not even for hotel bookings.
I wish I had some info about where you can pay with BTC on Expedia.

I've been using cheapair.com to book flights for a couple years now. great service.

wow! that's awesome

Let's say you sell stuff in exchange for bitcoins - then you wouldn't have to exchange into fiat at all if you wish to buy flight tickets. Isn't that obvious?

The guy in the CNN documentary used a webpage to buy plane tickets, lookit up.

if in my country also received for payment of flight tickets with bitcoin, the place will be my first visit was Japan. country of origin inventor bitcoin.. hmm

Yup, Morgan Spurlock buys a flight to Rochester on CheapAir.com using Bitcoin:

http://i0.wp.com/bitcoinschannel.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Inside-Man-303-Bitcoin-with-wallets-630x354.jpg

This was on CNN Inside Man, link below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLxhI81Flvk

Nice mate.. Lemme earn some more...n pay for my travels using BTC.. would totally love to do that.! :)

I will bookmark this thread to come back if I need a plane ticket and I can't pay easily otherwise.

Checked out on btctrip too.

They offer flights all over the world, domestic and international

I just can't believe that every airline on earth is actually accepting bitcoins.
That is just cool. :)

surely it is extraordinary!

Anyone know which travel company are accepting BTC?

Pay for bitcoin with credit card using www.prepaidbitco.in (http://www.prepaidbitco.in) Yes, you can pay for the bitcoins from your credit cards.

Can you show proof for a skeptic please its just i need to see it to believe it and at the moment i do not believe it, i can not get tickets in my country yet either.

Granted i am 3rd world like country but still would think i could get a plain out of here :(

Now checking your link thanks

Never used bitcoin for flight but it looks intimidating and i  would love to

Yes, now it is posible to buy your flight tickets with bitcoin. So, collect your bitcoin from http://www.prepaidbitco.in . You can be able to buy Bitcoin With Paypal or Buy bitcoin with credit card.

This is somewhat old news already.. Ive been reading article about flight for bitcoin long before.
This isnt surprising anymore.

Oh right because the lack of payment methods at the moment are going to make that difficult to pay for the tickets  :D

If you lost your credit card...

I like expedia, or destinia.

you can also buy codes for some airlines too in bitcoin

My mate bought some tickets with expedia using BTC for holidays with the GF and everything went well.

This news is old. :)

Ive heard it since I started Bitcoin. However, I havent used it even once.

Sure it would be cool on using bitcoin in buying my flight tickets, but it aint possible yet and it is not cheap compared to using credit card from my point of origin. Will be waiting more for that to happen as more mass adoption of BTC takes place.

An old news but still happy to see more and more business entities are considering bitcoin as a payment option.

Buses and taxis next please.

i had bookmarked this post, i came back to see if it's still possible to buy travel tickets through bitnet.

http://bitforum.info still does exist but bitnet was bought up by uphold : "Welcome to Uphold. The Internet of Money. Uphold enables anyone, anywhere to move, hold, convert and transact in any form of money or commodity instantly and securely. Launched in November 2014,..."

it is technically possible to build a website that allows to buy anonymously with bitcoins from any e-commerce website that exists, does it exist ?

I think that you can buy flight tickets through cheapair as I have personally used them, and my experience had been good with them.
I don't understand that how you can buy flight tickets "anonymously" through any websites, as you are needed to show your passport when boarding.
Correct me if I said something wrong.

This title made me curious and I just found out I can buy flight tickets with Bitcoin in my country too, this is amazing! The more services that accept them, the better! Only if Bitcoin was featured on these websites, so we could see which accept it. Who knows how many hidden ones there are around??

that is right. we do not have any flight accepting bitcoin as payment yet here. I think it will take so long to wait until we can pay flight tickets for bitcoin. because it is not famous yet here. and there are so many people who do not know bitcoin

ow that great if philippine airlane do that . easy to book online and easy to pay

That I guess would make it way easier to book flights. I supose they're just going to fix the price to fiat currency since btc price usually have large price increases.

But then again I've never been on a plane. :D I've only left the city for a really far location once and then I was on a ship.

Nice feature but still not available in my country. Airlines companies are ones that usualy adopt and accept new technologies fast so accepting Bitcoin payment is logical step that will probably attract new customers and become a good marketing for the company.

yes correct, only the payment would be anonymous meaning it won't appear on your bank statements.

i just checked options payments for cheapair : credit card, bitcoin, western union and monthly payments

Some of my friends have done that and it's really cool to do as it will be a fast transaction and the conversion rates were pretty high at that time.  ;D

So good to here that you can now purchase and book flights using your bitcoins.How i wish in philippines they will accept and allow paying bitcoins in their airlines so i can travel some country out.Good move for the country that already accepts bitcoins as payment on airlines and different stuffs on their country.Hope all will be implemented too here in philippines

Me too. I'm trying to build up good amounts of bitcoins so I might go to fly one someday.

Yeah I think It will be cool to be able to buy tickets with bitcoins directly even if I can just convert my bitcoins to $ to pay for the tickets hmmm well it will make the transaction more simple at least.

Though I dont have the luxury of buying airplane tickets but I am happy with this kind of news. It just shows that bitcoin is stronger than before and it is another sign that will lead to another price inflation in the market. Sooner or later other airplane companies will also accept bitcoin in almost every country.  I just hope that I will earn enough bitcoin so I can have a vacation abroad with family.

This is one of the few services that we have for Bitcoin in my country. But unfortunately the prices are too high for me to afford them. The cheapest ticket is around €300-€400 no matter if it's Bitcoin or fiat. It's still appreciated by me though, because there should be people buying them with Bitcoin too, or others becoming interested in trying Bitcoin.

Great news for bitcoiners as this will help in resolving either bitcoin can be used and patronise by the elites and the big business own like air operators in our society. In future bitcoin will make things more easier than were we are today because people are looking for more ways of making transactions easy for them like never before and bitcoin stand for this.

haha LOL this made my day for real you made me laugh,
I've never been on a plane too but I was planning at least once in my life to try everything except for the drugs.1

Getting flight tickets using bitcoin is a great idea and i hope that here in our country we will have that kind of feature so it will be easy for different travelers and also those bitcoin geeks who want to travel and buy tickets without hassle. I'm looking forward for this kind of thing. I think just after a few years this will happen because bitcoin is getting more popular because of its price.

I don't think there's much difference getting flight tickets using bitcoin and using paypal and other mode of payment. Only advantage you can have is that if you have bitcoins in your wallet then use it to buy, otherwise just used your paypal or your fiat to purchase if you don't have bitcoins on your end.

i am not yet found a way to buy flight tickets with bitcoin especially in online but i am sure that we can see this later after many store online and store offline is available to accepting bitcoin. the only thing that i can found is to buy someting or product that ready stock in internet so we can buy with our bitcoin.

There are few companies which allow to pay for flight tickets with bitcoin. I have never tried to pay for flight tickets with bitcoin. As I know Cheapair is old and popular company. Abitsky accepts only bitcoins for the payment. Don't know much about Destinia, users reviews isn't very good.
cheapair.com (http://cheapair.com), abitsky.com (http://abitsky.com), destinia.com (http://destinia.com)

In Europe - Airbaltic.com

Accepts BTC. Hopefully Ryanair accepts it soon also.

Expedia did at one point.
I think I remember hearing them having a problem so they stopped accepting them for their payments for tickets.
But they started using them again. Do not know if they still do though. :-\

Can you purchase your first flight tickets with bitcoin?
A around the world ticket would cost $10,000 per seat.
So I do not think they will. :-\
Usually a security deposit is required to make a purchase of those ticket if you are even paying cash or credit card. Incase you decide to cancel. You lose your security deposit. But if paying with bitcoin they can't get this amount from you. :P

I think this is yet to be implemented in my country.  I haven't heard any news or travel agency accepting Bitcoin as payment for plane tickets.  It would be great if this kind of service will be implemented in my country too.  I bet for the first time I will ride a plane just to test this Bitcoin payment lol.

There is no way i am giving up my Bitcoin to take a piss ass flight to anywhere in the world....lol these things are far to precious for that shit.  ;D

Neither I have been on it.
The reason is simple you didn't have any means to travel through it but maybe in future, you will travel on it  :-X