[ANN] BtcTrip - Flying with Bitcoins

[Mitchell]

In Google Chrome I needed to double click the buy button.

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

[btctrip]

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.

Thank you for you feedback,
have a good trip!

[btctrip]

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

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...

May be a bug, we are still in beta.

What SO and browser are using you?

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".

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

[Pale Phoenix]

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.

[btctrip]

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 you for the advice!
Fixed.

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

[Pale Phoenix]

^ Ah, great! Looking forward to seeing it.

[MPOE-PR]

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

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

[jack102938]

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

[TimeIsBitcoin]

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

By the way, love the vipassana advertisement 

[btctrip]

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

Thanks Jack!

Have a good trip!

[Shallow]

This is really innovative, i can see it going places 

[Patzek]

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.

[shantee]

...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

"Hi!

We received your payment registered with this invoice and we are booking your ticket.
We will keep you informed about the booking process.

Thank you!
BtcTrip Team"

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" ?)

[Mitchell]

...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

"Hi!

We received your payment registered with this invoice and we are booking your ticket.
We will keep you informed about the booking process.

Thank you!
BtcTrip Team"

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" ?)

I fear for you dude.

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[shantee]

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 ^^

[Mitchell]

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 see. Good to hear Have fun in Berlin!

[defaced]

now i know where im buying my next plane ticket at

[shantee]

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

[Mitchell]

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

Good to hear!

[megustabtc]

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