This month, JetBlue announced it has added Venmo as a payment option for booking a flight on jetblue.com. The company says the feature will come to the JetBlue mobile app later this year. Now, instead of entering your card details or using PayPal, you can choose to pay for your ticket with your Venmo balance or with the bank account, credit, or debit card linked to your Venmo account.
JetBlue is the first airline to take Venmo payments
You can now pay for your flight with your Venmo balance.
You can now pay for your flight with your Venmo balance.
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JetBlue is the first airline to accept payments from the peer-to-peer payment app, which is owned by PayPal. Like Apple Pay, Google Pay, or PayPal itself, Venmo lets you complete a transaction without having to dig out your credit card or input your financial details into the website.
Currently, you can only use Venmo to pay for tickets, so that EatUp Box on your flight home will need a more traditional form of cashless payment. However, Venmo thinks its users will welcome the new option, especially as a way to solve some of the pain points of paying for group trips. Using the company’s Groups feature, which lets users track, split, and manage group expenses, paying for flights with Venmo should make that bachelorette party trip to Charleston a little easier to plan.
Here’s how to buy your next JetBlue ticket using Venmo:
- Head to jetblue.com and choose your flight
- At the checkout page, under More Payment Options select Venmo
- Scan the QR code with the Venmo app on your phone
- Process the payment in the app using your Venmo balance or a linked account or card.
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