Crypto Payment Platform UTRUST Teams With Alternative Airline

Crypto payment platform Utrust is partnering with online flight search platform Alternative Airlines to bring crypto payments to over 600 airlines.

Based in Switzerland, Utrust is a cryptocurrency payment solution designed to modernize the finance and payments industry and solve the problems of traditional payment methods by offering instant transactions, buyer protection, and immediate crypto-to-cash settlements for the merchant.

Alternative Airlines is a flight-search and booking website that offers a fast, easy and convenient way to book flights to remote destinations, as well as well-known locations. It specializes in providing travellers with a wider choice of flights by working with more than 650 airlines, including American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Southwest Airlines, United Airlines, Ryanair, and China Southern Airlines.

Alternative Airlines’ partnership with Utrust will enable its customers to pay for flights to destinations across the globe using major cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), DASH, DigiByte (DGB) and Utrust’s own UTK.

“For business or leisure, flight travel can be expensive with consumers saving for months to afford a trip,” said Utrust CEO Nuno Correia. “Considered a high ticket item, it is imperative that consumers are protected when booking flights. Utrust is providing Alternative Airlines’ customers with the increased security and convenience of cryptocurrency payments, and reducing processing fees, to bring greater transparency and trust to the world of online payments.”

The partnership will allow Alternative Airlines to settle payments directly to its bank in fiat on the same day they are received, offering protection from potential market volatility.

“At Alternative Airlines, we are dedicated to providing a seamless transaction process, while empowering our customers to choose how they want to pay,” said Sam Argyle, Managing Director of Alternative Airlines. “Alternativeairlines.com is a single platform for travellers to easily search and book flights on over 600 airlines. Our customers can currently choose from over 25 payment methods — including all major debit cards and payment plans from all the best-known global providers—as well as over 160 localized currencies. We are incredibly excited, as our partnership with Utrust is the next major step in continuing to tailor the online booking experience to the customer, who will now have the opportunity to pay with cryptocurrency on all of the airlines that we ticket.”