26/10/2017
You can now travel the world and pay for your plane tickets with BTC. A new partnership between the Bitcoin company Bitnet and the Universal Air Travel Plan (UATP) hasopened up 260 airlines to accept the worldβs most famous cryptocurrency as a payment option.
UATP is a global payment platform owned and managed by a group of leading airlines and Bitnet β a well-known digital commerce platform with offices in San Francisco and Belfast β just became its most recent payment processing partner.
The list of new Bitcoin-friendly airlines includes Aeromexico, Air New Zealand, American Airlines, Austrian Airlines, China Eastern Airlines, Delta Air Lines, EL AL Israel Airlines, Etihad Airways, GOL Linhas aereas inteligentes S.A., Hahn Air, Japan Airlines, Luhfthansa German Airlines, Malaysia Airlines, Qantas Airways, Shandong Airlines, United Airlines and US Airways.
Besides plane tickets, the travellers can also use Bitcoin to buy train ticketsfrom Amtrak, the National Railroad Passenger Corporation that operates in the United States and Canada. Passengers can travel to 500 plus destinations in these two countries via more than 30 train routes.
Following the announcement, the CEO of UATP said the group was βvery happy to be partnering with Bitnetβ in order to add Bitcoin to their payment platform. βWe are always looking for skilled partners to bring additional forms of payment to the UATP processing platform and Bitnet fits the bill well,β saidRalph Kaiser.
Bitnet is not exactly a rookie when it comes to massive partnerships. The company has previously worked with CyberSource and Visa and has a long experience in payment processing and fraud management for airlines.
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