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Title: Overview of all airline & flight ticket sites that accept bitcoin Post by: NLNico on March 07, 2018, 02:39:38 AM I made a "bitcoin flights" overview, pretty sure these are all of them. Disclaimer: no idea about the reputation of them, use on own risk, etc.
If you know any other (local) ones or if you have experiences with some of these, please share it here :) PS, it seems like flybit.in disappeared overnight. This is a good example of how any of these sites could be a scam. Do your own research in finding the reputation of these companies! Title: Re: Overview of all airline & flight ticket sites that accept bitcoin Post by: NLNico on April 02, 2018, 05:13:29 PM Added Jettly (https://blog.jettly.com/jettly-now-accepting-bitcoin-for-managed-membership-accounts/) (PR: March 7, 2018.)
Also added premiumjet (http://blog.premiumjet.eu/premium-jet-now-accepting-bitcoin-payments/) (Nov 2017.) Bitcoin seems popular lately among the companies that offer private jets (: Title: Re: Overview of all airline & flight ticket sites that accept bitcoin Post by: NLNico on April 12, 2018, 01:32:13 PM Added airtreks.com (https://www.airtreks.com) that sells "Around the world" tickets and uses Bitpay (since Feb 2018.)
Title: Re: Overview of all airline & flight ticket sites that accept bitcoin Post by: gentlemand on April 12, 2018, 01:55:17 PM For Brits and possibly Europeans another option is gift cards from Giftoff for Virgin flights and flights booked via Lastminute. With Lastminute you can't use gift cards to book holidays, only flights plus hotels.
https://giftoff.com/gift-cards/virgin https://giftoff.com/gift-cards/lastminute-com They use Bitpay and I've never had an issue with them. I've often found the BTC specific flight sellers can be insanely more expensive than going through the normal flight sites. In Europe particularly there are a lot of very cheap airlines that the BTC sites never seem to list so you might be missing out on a 3-4x saving for the same flight. Title: Re: Overview of all airline & flight ticket sites that accept bitcoin Post by: NLNico on April 14, 2018, 07:17:07 AM Great, I added them :) thanks.
The ticket prices indeed highly depend on the specific airlines/flights. Destinia and some others do have some low-cost EU carriers like Transavia, Vueling, easyJet, etc. (bit depends on the countries if you need those :P) But most times the BTC sites do have some % premium :( So I would still always recommend people to double check prices among fiat sites as well (Momondo, matrix.itasoftware.com, etc.) Title: Re: Overview of all airline & flight ticket sites that accept bitcoin Post by: gentlemand on April 14, 2018, 05:15:35 PM https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/8c8hc7/destinia_claim_they_accept_bitcoin_for_flights/
According to that Destinia Bitcoin options are a lottery. You won't find out whether a flight is payable in BTC until you actually try to. Title: Re: Overview of all airline & flight ticket sites that accept bitcoin Post by: NLNico on April 15, 2018, 02:35:22 AM https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/8c8hc7/destinia_claim_they_accept_bitcoin_for_flights/ Sounds pretty strange. Personally, I do actually have good experiences with Destinia but obviously sucks to find out if a flight doesn't work with bitcoin in last step.According to that Destinia Bitcoin options are a lottery. You won't find out whether a flight is payable in BTC until you actually try to. Title: Re: Overview of all airline & flight ticket sites that accept bitcoin Post by: NLNico on April 18, 2018, 08:26:39 AM Added FlightGiftCard (https://www.flightgiftcard.com/). Accepting bitcoin since 2 days ago: https://www.openbusinesscouncil.org/2018/04/the-crypto-sector-expands-hotelgift-and-flightgiftcard-accepts-bitcoin-as-payment/
Also added ionlyflyfirstclass.com - accepting bitcoin for some years, but somehow I missed it in original thread. Added cryptojaunt.com. An Australian travel agency since 2 weeks: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/89k3q5/go_anywhere_on_bitcoin_new_crypto_only_travel/ Title: Re: Overview of all airline & flight ticket sites that accept bitcoin Post by: SFR10 on April 19, 2018, 01:22:21 PM There's another travel agency "Agencia de viajes virtual (http://www.agenciadeviajesvirtual.com/)" (apparently, they accept BTCicoin and few other crypto-currencies):
You guys are totally right, let me explain more, i own a virtual travel agency with my wife for a little more than two years now, we accept the traditional payment methods and a few months we started accepting cryptos. We are associated with a multinational company based un the US (miami), it's a legit bussines, you can check it on the web site. The site to buy is https://www.agenciadeviajesvirtual.com/Home/Index/49153?pais=USA In case you want to pay your flight tickets with cryptos choose the Ewallet option Remember Bitcoin, Litecoin and dogecoin Take note: I wasn't able to find any reviews + they don't have a user-friendly website. Title: Re: Overview of all airline & flight ticket sites that accept bitcoin Post by: NLNico on April 20, 2018, 09:35:54 AM Indeed a bit confusing site (can't seem to find many flights either), but I added them for completeness :) Thanks.
Title: Re: Overview of all airline & flight ticket sites that accept bitcoin Post by: squatz1 on April 21, 2018, 03:10:40 AM I would assume that someone from here that knows this, is there any site which allows you to buy gift cards to one of the big airlines' companies (American Airlines, Delta, Southwest, etc) with crypto? I'd rather not have to deal with one of these random sites when I'm ordering my tickets so I'm just able to pay directly to ensure that everything is 100 percent OK.
I would think a good amount of people share this sentiment with me, right? I think you all would rather deal with the big companies in crypto if you could with your crypto. Title: Re: Overview of all airline & flight ticket sites that accept bitcoin Post by: DigitalFox on April 21, 2018, 07:25:47 AM NLNico, are you adding flights only or other travel related info as well? Hotels etc Title: Re: Overview of all airline & flight ticket sites that accept bitcoin Post by: NLNico on April 21, 2018, 09:40:00 AM I would assume that someone from here that knows this, is there any site which allows you to buy gift cards to one of the big airlines' companies (American Airlines, Delta, Southwest, etc) with crypto? I'd rather not have to deal with one of these random sites when I'm ordering my tickets so I'm just able to pay directly to ensure that everything is 100 percent OK. Uh.. there are several gift card options with exactly these 3 airlines in the overview ? :pNLNico, are you adding flights only or other travel related info as well? Hotels etc Yes, only flights. Basically for hotels there is Expedia.com that accepts bitcoin (make sure to go to the .com - not local.) I don't feel like making an overview of all the other hotel sites, because Expedia is huge and IMO just the site to use for hotels :xTitle: Re: Overview of all airline & flight ticket sites that accept bitcoin Post by: DigitalFox on April 21, 2018, 10:16:49 AM I would assume that someone from here that knows this, is there any site which allows you to buy gift cards to one of the big airlines' companies (American Airlines, Delta, Southwest, etc) with crypto? I'd rather not have to deal with one of these random sites when I'm ordering my tickets so I'm just able to pay directly to ensure that everything is 100 percent OK. Uh.. there are several gift card options with exactly these 3 airlines in the overview ? :pNLNico, are you adding flights only or other travel related info as well? Hotels etc Yes, only flights. Basically for hotels there is Expedia.com that accepts bitcoin (make sure to go to the .com - not local.) I don't feel like making an overview of all the other hotel sites, because Expedia is huge and IMO just the site to use for hotels :xWell, I was just going to mention that for few months now you can book a hotel for TZC, which isn't even in top 100 alts. Cool, eh? Title: Re: Overview of all airline & flight ticket sites that accept bitcoin Post by: shaggy404 on May 29, 2018, 12:36:26 PM Has anyone tried future.travel yet? I'm willing to book a couple of flight but would like to see if there are any reviews.
Edit: Found this Facebook page and reviews are good. In one of the reviews someone mentioned successful flight booking with Bitcoin too. https://www.facebook.com/pg/FutureTravel-1504447956442155/reviews/ Title: Re: Overview of all airline & flight ticket sites that accept bitcoin Post by: NLNico on May 29, 2018, 12:42:35 PM Has anyone tried future.travel yet? I'm willing to book a couple of flight but would like to see if there are any reviews. Yeah, I find it a tricky one.On one hand, they really do look like a small regular travel agency in Vietnam (for example if you look on their FB page: https://www.facebook.com/FutureTravel-1504447956442155/) - so that's positive! On the other hand, a small travel agency could scam or just be a complete fake company (TBH their FB reviews look legit - but again... could "in theory" be faked.) So yeah..... who will be the first bitcointalk member to try them out lol :D Title: Re: Overview of all airline & flight ticket sites that accept bitcoin Post by: kripkiki12 on May 31, 2018, 08:00:20 PM Wow, that's pretty cool, thanks for the overview!! Are they trustworthy though? Anyone has personal experience in buying flight tickets with Bitcoin or any other crypto?
Title: Re: Overview of all airline & flight ticket sites that accept bitcoin Post by: NLNico on June 03, 2018, 06:20:11 PM I have good experiences with Destinia and Abitsky. In general, I definitely don't guarantee that any of them are trustworthy though :P Up to everyone to do their own research etc.
BTW, someone from the "Payments Race" mentioned "future.travel" (booked ticket with them): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0qrn82PhOM so there is that. Title: Re: Overview of all airline & flight ticket sites that accept bitcoin Post by: Cobalt9317 on June 03, 2018, 06:30:11 PM I have good experiences with Destinia and Abitsky. In general, I definitely don't guarantee that any of them are trustworthy though :P Up to everyone to do their own research etc. BTW, someone from the "Payments Race" mentioned "future.travel" (booked ticket with them): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0qrn82PhOM so there is that. I haven't see this for a while an overview of all airline accepting bitcoin as payments, but yeah we need to do our own research for precaution. I guess there could be some information about asia airlines will accept bitcoin in the future as payment for the ticket or it is all possibilities I'm thinking of traveling in Japan. Title: Re: Overview of all airline & flight ticket sites that accept bitcoin Post by: NLNico on June 04, 2018, 10:15:01 AM Somewhat related...
30 retail stores at Brisbane Airport now accept bitcoin: Use Bitcoin to buy your duty-free at this airport (https://www.cnet.com/news/bitcoin-airport-cryptocurrency-travellers-pay/) Title: Re: Overview of all airline & flight ticket sites that accept bitcoin Post by: NLNico on June 08, 2018, 10:26:40 AM NLNico, are you adding flights only or other travel related info as well? Hotels etc Yes, only flights. Basically for hotels there is Expedia.com that accepts bitcoin (make sure to go to the .com - not local.) I don't feel like making an overview of all the other hotel sites, because Expedia is huge and IMO just the site to use for hotels :xSo for now, there is destinia.com, cheapair.com, abitsky.com, etc for hotels too.. or one of the gift card sites for a Hotels.com coupon (if you prefer to do it that way.) But maybe I will make a more complete overview for hotels in the future as well :) Title: Re: Overview of all airline & flight ticket sites that accept bitcoin Post by: NLNico on June 14, 2018, 01:01:23 PM So I just noticed Expedia doesn't accept bitcoin anymore due to Coinbase stopping custodial merchant tools. Cheapair (https://www.cheapair.com/) also used Coinbase, but switched to BTCPay server (https://github.com/btcpayserver/btcpayserver) so (AFAIK) they are the first in this list to use a self-hosted non-custodial open-source solution.. pretty awesome :) Title: Re: Overview of all airline & flight ticket sites that accept bitcoin Post by: NLNico on June 17, 2018, 11:30:51 AM Just noticed Bitrefill.com (https://www.bitrefill.com/international/) also has gift cards for Flightgiftcard, Hotelgift and Hotels.com (and Uber in US.) Interesting is that you can also pay through the Lightning Network (both BTC and LTC.)
Title: Re: Overview of all airline & flight ticket sites that accept bitcoin Post by: Lanatsa on June 17, 2018, 07:11:27 PM I had seen this thread before and it do helps me when it comes on booking a flight online. I was aware or do notice the announcement of coins.ph that they are already into online booking with flights. I saw the guide wayback before and tried it myself and book without any hassle on falling inline just to book a ticket. Its done thru online with just simple steps. How good for local wallets or mechants do offer this specially for people who do actively make travel to other places. Btw i merited this post. :D
Title: Re: Overview of all airline & flight ticket sites that accept bitcoin Post by: WilliG on July 04, 2018, 09:38:55 AM I often use Cheapair, they have great sales
Title: Re: Overview of all airline & flight ticket sites that accept bitcoin Post by: NLNico on July 05, 2018, 07:10:47 PM Just saw someone ordered Easyjet tickets (https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/8utc88/i_just_spent_btc_for_flight_tickets_from_easyjet/) by using a service called thebigcoin.io (https://www.thebigcoin.io/) ("order anything online and pay with crypto" service.) So added it to the overview :)
Seems somewhat convenient and you can probably buy all possible plane tickets with it, but a relatively high fee of 7-12%. They are on bitcointalk (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2152963) too. Title: Re: Overview of all airline & flight ticket sites that accept bitcoin Post by: shield132 on July 05, 2018, 08:22:20 PM Does there really exist such thing? Bitcoin flights? I knew one of Japan airlines (if I am correct) was planning this but didn't know if it was ever released in real life. Thank you OP for sharing it...
Which website is 100 legit to buy tickets? I mean international flights with any line, for example take Turkish Airlines. Thebigcoin has very high fees, it even doesn't worth to use. Title: Re: Overview of all airline & flight ticket sites that accept bitcoin Post by: gentlemand on July 05, 2018, 08:28:48 PM Just saw someone ordered Easyjet tickets (https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/8utc88/i_just_spent_btc_for_flight_tickets_from_easyjet/) by using a service called thebigcoin.io (https://www.thebigcoin.io/) ("order anything online and pay with crypto" service.) So added it to the overview :) Seems somewhat convenient and you can probably buy all possible plane tickets with it, but a relatively high fee of 7-12%. They are on bitcointalk (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2152963) too. Going on those criteria you may as well list crypto debit cards too. It's just a different way of buying anything with a cut just like them. I'd prefer no middle men in the list myself. Title: Re: Overview of all airline & flight ticket sites that accept bitcoin Post by: NLNico on July 05, 2018, 08:59:11 PM Meh, they are all the way down in the list at the "Specials" category, so I think it's okay. I also don't think debit cards are really comparable because they take a lot more time to order (and frequently have KYC/AML for higher limits etc), while thebigcoin.io seems to provide a quicker direct service.
But I obviously agree that I prefer direct providers. Note that sites like Destinia and Cheapair also just book (all or at least some) flights with their credit cards directly from the airline sites. They just have an automated system for it and charge a bit less than thebigcoin.io, so it's a bit more reasonable. (PS, on the topic of debit cards... for those wondering.. currently this seems the best crypto debit card overview (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DRbTeMCzb4UeXI0YlAzBxMc2u2i0cN_17Ql6eMngK6E/edit#gid=0)) Title: Re: Overview of all airline & flight ticket sites that accept bitcoin Post by: Kprawn on July 06, 2018, 01:22:16 PM Hey thanks for this comprehensive list. ;D
I reckon we would reach the Moon, with one of these airlines. Anyone want to find out if we can buy some tickets for the next Mars mission with bitcoins? Who was working on this? {Virgin or Elon Musk?} ::) Title: Re: Overview of all airline & flight ticket sites that accept bitcoin Post by: NLNico on July 06, 2018, 02:33:35 PM Lol, I actually have considered putting them in the list. Since 2013 Virgin Galactic (http://www.virgingalactic.com) indeed accepts bitcoin: Buy your space flight with bitcoin (https://www.cnbc.com/2013/11/22/virgin-galactic-to-accept-bitcoin-branson.html) (ticket is $250k worth.) The Winklevoss brothers already bought tickets (https://winklevosscapital.com/bitcoin-space-and-beyond/) in 2014.
Title: Re: Overview of all airline & flight ticket sites that accept bitcoin Post by: shaggy404 on July 10, 2018, 12:51:14 PM I often use Cheapair, they have great sales They also accept Litecoin, DASH and Bcash (1). During the recent Litecoin summit, they were also offering discounts on Litecoin payments (2). 1 - https://www.cheapair.com/blog/a-letter-to-our-bitcoin-customers/ 2 - https://twitter.com/search?q=litecoin%20from%3ACheapAir&src=typd Title: Re: Overview of all airline & flight ticket sites that accept bitcoin Post by: NLNico on July 11, 2018, 03:02:16 PM Added m2jets.com, monarchairgroup.com, vegasexpressjet.com, priorityonejets.com, simplecharters.com, navair.com.au, flyzuum.com, avionejet.com and privatejethiredirect.com. All companies that offer private jet flights. Actually made a "Private jet" category considering there are already 14 of them.
Title: Re: Overview of all airline & flight ticket sites that accept bitcoin Post by: shaggy404 on July 13, 2018, 08:19:05 AM Added m2jets.com, monarchairgroup.com, vegasexpressjet.com, priorityonejets.com, simplecharters.com, navair.com.au, flyzuum.com, avionejet.com and privatejethiredirect.com. All companies that offer private jet flights. Actually made a "Private jet" category considering there are already 14 of them. Just WOW. 14 companies accepting Bitcoin for private jets while there are only a handful of them for retail flights? This is something I had not expected. But anyway the larger the adoption the better. Title: Re: Overview of all airline & flight ticket sites that accept bitcoin Post by: gentlemand on July 13, 2018, 09:17:08 AM Just WOW. 14 companies accepting Bitcoin for private jets while there are only a handful of them for retail flights? This is something I had not expected. But anyway the larger the adoption the better. They're appealing to early adopters and ICO con artists and expecting them to be into the idea of throwing their free money around. They appeal to vanity. I guess there is enough of their ICO money still around, or rather our money, that hasn't yet been fully squandered. Title: Re: Overview of all airline & flight ticket sites that accept bitcoin Post by: NLNico on July 20, 2018, 03:36:28 PM Added https://coincards.ca who offers giftcards for Air Canada, Flight Centre, WestJet and others.
Title: Re: Overview of all airline & flight ticket sites that accept bitcoin Post by: NLNico on April 16, 2019, 05:13:40 AM - Added American Airlines, Southwest Airlines and Delta Air Lines to Bitrefill.
- Added Bidali giftcards. - Added xceltrip. I do not know Bidali nor xceltrip, so do your own research. Title: Re: Overview of all airline & flight ticket sites that accept bitcoin Post by: Kemarit on April 17, 2019, 12:16:48 PM Corporate traveller recently added bitcoin to their payment method, (https://www.corptraveller.co.uk/) by partnering with Bitpay.
Title: Re: Overview of all airline & flight ticket sites that accept bitcoin Post by: NLNico on June 29, 2019, 07:00:10 AM Added Travelbybit.com (https://travelbybit.com).
They are also the payment processor for Brisbane Airport (and other AUS) merchants that accept crypto (even LN.) And they got some investors like Binance, so not some random new company. They also don't use a third-party for payments, so that is always a plus. Title: Re: Overview of all airline & flight ticket sites that accept bitcoin Post by: felicita on June 30, 2019, 10:00:46 AM thats for this huge list ! good work.
For me http://www.nurflug.de/ is very interesting be course iam from Germany looks trusted for me. regards Title: Re: Overview of all airline & flight ticket sites that accept bitcoin Post by: servsec on December 04, 2019, 07:52:43 AM Is travelbybit reliable?
Can someone tell me if bought the tickets and everything went well? Title: Re: Overview of all airline & flight ticket sites that accept bitcoin Post by: gentlemand on December 04, 2019, 11:51:02 AM Is travelbybit reliable? Can someone tell me if bought the tickets and everything went well? They've been around for a long time and have been involved with other established projects and businesses like Brisbane airport. I haven't used them myself but I'd say they're a more solid bet than most places. There are also some positive reviews beyond the usual crypto echo chambers. Title: Re: Overview of all airline & flight ticket sites that accept bitcoin Post by: moretea on February 12, 2020, 09:48:31 AM Is travelbybit reliable? Can someone tell me if bought the tickets and everything went well? With BTC going back up, these kinds of topics become relevant again. I wasn't willing to spend mine at low prices. I just booked a flight with TravelbyBit and all went good. Came across it through this blog: https://pokerceo.io/crypto/travel-with-bitcoin-and-crypto/ (https://pokerceo.io/crypto/travel-with-bitcoin-and-crypto/) |