Expedia Remove payment options With Bitcoin – company Travel America, Expedia.com no longer accept Bitcoin as payment. Travel by Expedia Bitcoin payments is not a prior notice to the user. Terms and conditions page indicates "Availability payments Bitcoin still available".
Expedia.com has supported payment of the Bitcoin since 2014 but the removal was spread when a posting appeared on Reddit. According to the users of Reddit:
Expedia.com, one of the biggest sites to book flights/hotels that used to take a bitcoin for years ... I went there to see the flight and noticed they no longer accept it. customer support said they stopped accepting it June 10. it sucks! many of us in the tech industry got most of our salary in bitcoin and it was very nice to use Expedia for flight. I will not use them again!<
When asked, the official representative of the Bitcoin confirmed no longer a payment. Christie Hudson, SR. Communications Manager at Expedia – North America, explains;
I can confirm that starting May 10, 2018, Expedia no longer supports Bitcoin as payment method. Currently, we do not feel that we can offer the best experience for those using Bitcoin. But will continue to evaluate the different options for flexible payment solutions offers to the tourists.<
Crypto community suggest the possibility of a reason for deletion by Expedia because Bitcoin payments Coinbase merchant tools stop custodial. However, the reasons behind the termination was not officially revealed.
The possibility of the potential to Rival
So for the moment, there are many other travel companies that accept payment virtual, some of them are Destinia.com, CheapAir.com, Abitsky.com, etc. Even so, strong saw the potential for redditors CheapAir which supports four new cryptoc. To maintain the Coinbase tool Merchant, payment processor of the Bitcoin CheapAir is available through Coinbase. However, currently, CheapAir accept Bitcoin payment process using BitPay and other cryptocurrency, LTC, BCH, DASH is processed by Exchange Gocoin.
"During the last six months, we've seen a major increase in the number of customers requesting alternative currencies, so we have been working hard to integrate the three most requested," said CEO Jeff Klee from CheapAir<