A low-cost airline in Japan called 'Peach Aviation', has confirmed that they have a plan to allow Bitcoin (BTC) as a payment. Because of an announcement of the airline company in may 2017 that the clients will be able to pay with Bitcoin, and the payment trough bitcoins still not available, people thought the plans might be canceled. But the airline company confirmed that that's not the case and payment trough Bitcoin will be there!
Japan already recognized Bitcoin as a legal payment method since April 2017. Great example for the rest of the world!
In response to the rumors that Peach Aviation would not follow through with their BTC payment option, the airline denied such a cancellation on their website, stating:
“There have been some reports today on our company retracting its plan to enable airline tickets to be purchased with Bitcoins; however, this is not something that was announced by our company and is not a fact. We are currently considering our start period in aiming to introduce such a service.”
Peach Aviation is not the first to accept Bitcoin as payment for flights. In July 2017, AirBaltic added the option to purchase flights with BTC. Singapore Airlines as recently as today, Feb. 5, announced a Blockchain-based frequent flyer app to be released in August 2018. Great news :)!
Source: https://cointelegraph.com / http://www.flypeach.com/pc/en