Apple Pay accepted by @JetBlue Airlines - How to use Bitcoins on Apple Pay as Apple Watch coming in April 2015

The Apple Watch is yet to launch but Apple is still signing up business partners to use Apple Pay, their Mobile money solution that’ll come baked inside of the Apple Watch.

And their latest catch?

JetBlue Airlines of course, who’ll now be accepting Apple Pay as legal tender to pay for in-flight meals, Champagne and even upgrading from Coach to First Class as stated in the article “JetBlue becomes first airline to accept Apple Pay in the skies”, published February 10, 2015 By Trevor Mogg, Digitaltrends. 

This feature will be available on JetBlue Airlines flights by the week of Sunday February 15^th 2015 specifically on flights between JFK and airports in San Francisco and LA as the guinea pig run, with the other routes falling in line by June 2015 as stated in the article “Apple Pay takes to the skies via JetBlue”, published February 10, 2015, by Edward C. Baig, USA TODAY.

Simply put, if you're flying on any of these flights and you happen to be toting an Apple iPhone 6 and Apple iPhone 6 Plus that’s packin’ NFC as noted in my blog article entitled “Apple iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus - No Sapphire Screen but 128GB Storage and NFC-powered Apple Pay in Apple's Biggest iPhone Launch”, you can use Apple Pay to pay for your in-flight meals, drinks and yes, possibly tickets.

Good to note here that Apple has a very cozy relationship with JetBlue Airlines.

JetBlue Airlines loves Apple so much, they’re even swapping out Credit Card POS (Point of Sale) Terminals for Apple iPad Mini 3 that have a NFC (Near Field Communication) enabled case to allow some 3,500 of the Flight Attendants to use them to do Transactions with the Apple iPhone 6. The passenger is then send a receipt of the transaction via email, unlike the older system that printed you a receipt!

As usual, the FAA (Federal Aviation Authority) had to approve the Tablets for usage at 35,000 feet. The Federal Aviation Administration had to approve the new Apple iPad Mini 3's before they could be used onboard.

What a First Quarter of 2015 for Apple!

Apple Pay accepted by JetBlue - How to use Bitcoins on Apple Pay as Apple Watch coming in April 2015

The Apple iPhone 6 and Apple iPhone 6 Plus, which has set record breaking sales in the Fourth Quarter of 2014. Apple has sold some US$18 Billion or  approximately 74.5 Million iPhones worldwide as reported in the article “‘Staggering’ iPhone Demand Helps Lift Apple’s Quarterly Profit by 38%”, published Jan. 28, 2015 3:50 a.m. ET By DAISUKE WAKABAYASHI, Wall Street Journal.

It has now been confirmed by analyst Kantar Worldpanel ComTech that sales of the Apple iPhone 6 have beaten Google Android in the Fourth Quarter of 2014 as detailed in my blog article entitled “Apple beats Android by a nose in the US of A - EU loves Apple but in China Xiaomi mojo is strong as India beckons”.

Interestingly, rumours abound as it relates to Google Pay and competitors Samsung making another stab at Mobile payments as the video from USA TODAY suggests.

So combine this news with the fact that Apple has accepted Paypal as a payment option back in December 2014 as stated in my blog article entitled “Apple supports PayPal for US and UK Item Purchases - How Jamaicans can purchase Apple iPhones online as Fappening haunting Apple”.

Now add to that the fact that Paypal accepts Bitcoins and Apple in June 2014 re-admitted the usage of Bitcoin Wallet Apps as mentioned in my blog article entitled “Microsoft accepts Bitcoins for Purchases - Napster of Cryptocurrency set to explode in Jamaica in 2015 Year of the Sheep”.

In effect, this latest bit of News means you can, technically speaking, via Bitcoin conversion services, pay for your airline tickets on JetBlue Airlines with Bitcoins using your Apple Watch, which is coming by April 2015 as noted in my blog article entitled “Apple CEO says Apple Watch coming April 2015 - Developer on Red Alert for Customizable Metals and Minerals Sophistication”.

It also suggests that the next Apple iPad might come with NFC goodness baked inside, making the burgeoning e-commerce Market another area ripe for expansion for the Apple iPad to reverse the fall off in the Tablet Sales as suggested in my blog article entitled “IDC Stats suggest Tablet Freefall in 2015 – How to sell Tablets using built-in Keyboards and Carrier Unlocked SIM Cards”.

Can’t wait for the Apple Watch to land in April 2015!