SAN SALVADOR, – Low-cost airline company Volaris will accept bitcoin in El Salvador, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele stated Tuesday.
” This permits us to increase the offering of flights for Salvadorans, in addition to being the very first airline company on the planet to accept bitcoin and obviously Chivo wallet,” Bukele stated in remarks at a Volaris occasion shared on Twitter by the main represent the president's workplace.
Some other providers, consisting of Mexico's TAR Airlines in 2015, have actually formerly revealed they would accept bitcoin.
Chivo is the bitcoin digital wallet introduced last month by El Salvador's federal government as part of its adoption of bitcoin as legal tender, together with the U.S. dollar.
Volaris, based in Mexico, stated on its site that it was working to offer customers in El Salvador the choice to pay with the digital currency for services at the airport.
El Salvador's civil air travel authority in August gave Volaris' regional subsidiary permission to run in El Salvador.