How to Buy International Flights on Aviasales with Cryptocurrency
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Aviasales is one of the most popular flight search services, and millions of travelers start planning their trips with it. Difficulties arise not at the search stage but at the payment stage, especially when the ticket is sold by an airline that does not accept crypto. We will cover how the service works and how to pay for a flight if a regular card does not go through or you want to pay with cryptocurrency.
What Aviasales is
Aviasales is a flight metasearch engine that compares prices from hundreds of airlines and agencies and shows the best options in a single window. You enter the departure and arrival city, and the service collects offers from across the market in a couple of minutes. Whether to buy the ticket directly through Aviasales or go to another seller is up to you.
The value of the service lies in its flexible search tools. It has a low-price map for those who have not chosen a destination yet, a calendar showing prices by day, and filters by departure time, stopovers, and baggage. There are also price-drop notifications — add a ticket to favorites and get an alert when it gets cheaper.
Aviasales works with both scheduled flights and charters. The service has a mobile app and a Telegram bot that track prices and send hot deals. It is essentially a single entry point for finding a flight, from the initial idea to a confirmed booking.
What to do if payment difficulties arise
The first thing that trips up payment is that neither Aviasales nor airlines work with cryptocurrency. Whether your savings are in USDT or Bitcoin, that will not help you buy a ticket: a wallet cannot be linked to a payment. There are two paths from here. The first is to send the coins to an exchange, convert them to fiat, and lose money on the rate and fees. The second is to get a card that runs on crypto but looks like a perfectly ordinary one to the seller.
Next come problems with flights. A ticket from a carrier or a foreign aggregator is paid through international acquiring, which first looks at the issuing bank. If the region is not supported, the payment fails before it even reaches confirmation.
International bank cards. Paying for a flight from a foreign carrier is most straightforward with these. An international acquirer passes a card from a foreign bank without trouble. The difficulty lies elsewhere — to open an account you usually have to travel to the bank in person, collect documents, and prove where you live, and a crypto holder also has to convert coins on an exchange first.
Specialized services for paying for purchases. Here an intermediary carries out the payment on a foreign order for you — you hand them the amount and they pay the seller. It works for a one-off purchase, but they charge a percentage, and how fast and safe it all is depends on the specific intermediary.
Virtual international cards. For paying for tickets abroad online, this is the most practical solution. Such a card exists only in digital form — the number, expiry date, and CVC code are all there, and for the airline it is equivalent to a plastic card. Some services let you load crypto onto it, which removes both barriers at once — the crypto obstacle and the lack of an international card. Issuance takes a couple of minutes, no travel required.
Mirocard as a tool for buying Aviasales flights
Mirocard issues digital Visa and Mastercard cards topped up with cryptocurrency, and both main obstacles to paying for a ticket disappear at once. Aviasales and foreign carriers see a regular international card, so the charge goes through as normal. For those who have crypto on hand, the service enables direct payment from the wallet, and for those who cannot open a foreign bank account, it provides a reliable way to pay abroad.
Mirocard has a card specifically designed for travel and international payments. This is exactly what works for Aviasales, hotel bookings, and other travel services. Issuance costs 10 dollars, and the top-up fee is shown right when you set up the chosen card. One card pays for the flight, accommodation, insurance, and car rental.
How to set up a Mirocard
The whole process goes through the internet and takes just a few minutes.
Step 1. Create an account. Open mirocard.com and click "Get a card". If you are here for the first time, register with your email address and password, then open the email and click the confirmation link. Those who already have a Heleket account do not need to register again — logging in through it will pull both cards and account balance into Mirocard.
Step 3. Choose a card. Among the available cards, find the right one and click "Issue card". A calculation page will open — it shows the issuance price and the amount you are putting on the card as a starting balance.
Step 4. Confirm your identity. When the service requests verification, attach your documents. This is a quick check for the security of your account; afterward, limit restrictions are lifted. It usually takes a couple of minutes.
Step 5. Pay for issuance. Complete the setup by clicking the payment button. The issuance fee will leave the master balance, and the remaining amount will go onto the card, ready to use.
Step 6. Get your card details. The ready card will appear in your dashboard with its number, expiry date, and CVC code. Nothing needs to be activated — it processes payments right away. Copy the details for buying your ticket from here.
One last tip. Put a little more on the card than the ticket costs. At the moment of payment the seller sometimes holds a slightly larger amount briefly to verify the card, and the extra will be returned within a few hours. Also account for the top-up fee so the balance is guaranteed to cover the full order.
How to buy Aviasales flights with Mirocard
With a ready card, buying a ticket takes a few minutes.
Step 1. Open Aviasales. Go to the website or app and log into your profile — that way orders and tickets will be stored in one place.
Step 2. Enter your route. Enter the departure city and arrival city, dates, and number of passengers. If you have not decided on a destination yet, the "Anywhere" option will show the cheapest cities on the map. Also specify the service class and number of passengers.
Step 3. Choose a flight. Pick a suitable ticket from the list by price, departure time, and number of stopovers. The seller — the airline or agency handling the booking — is also shown here.
Step 4. Enter passenger details. Provide contact information and document details — email, phone, full name, nationality, gender, document type, and number. Double-check everything against the passport, otherwise the ticket will need to be reissued.
Step 5. Choose a seat. If the airline lets you pick a seat, select the one you want — its number and price will appear in the total right away.
Step 6. Enter card details. At the payment stage, select card payment and enter the Mirocard details — number, expiry date, and CVC from your dashboard. Check the route, dates, passenger details, and amount, then confirm the payment. The ticket will arrive at the email you provided.
How to save on ticket purchases
A few simple techniques help bring the ticket price down, and they work best together.
Check the low-price calendar. It shows prices by day, so you can immediately see when it is cheaper to fly. Shift the trip by a couple of days in either direction and the price often drops noticeably — check options in a range of plus or minus three days from your target date.
Compare offers from different sellers. The same flight is sold by several agencies and the airline itself, and their prices differ. Aviasales shows them side by side, so all that remains is to choose the best deal while also checking the refund and baggage conditions.
Watch for promotions and notifications. Airlines run sales regularly, and Aviasales sends an alert when a favorited ticket gets cheaper. Subscribe to notifications or to the Telegram channel with hot deals to avoid missing discounts.
Flexibility also helps. Tickets are cheaper when bought in advance — roughly 2–3 months before an international flight and 3–4 weeks before a domestic one. Flights with stopovers, departure from a nearby city, and travel without checked baggage also reduce the final amount.
Conclusion
There are different ways to pay for a ticket on Aviasales, but each has a weak point. A bank card works directly but cannot be topped up with crypto. Intermediary services help for a one-off purchase but charge a fee. A virtual card removes both main barriers — the impossibility of paying with cryptocurrency and the lack of access to foreign banks.
Mirocard here works exactly like a regular Visa or Mastercard; the only difference is that it is topped up with crypto. Set everything up once and pay for tickets, hotels, and other travel services directly from your crypto wallet, bypassing the exchange to fiat. One card is enough for the whole trip, and putting together a journey becomes noticeably easier.