Argentine Airline Flybondi to Adopt NFT Technology for Ticket Issuance
Flybondi, a low-cost Argentine airline, is introducing blockchain tech in its operations. The company announced recently it will start issuing tickets as non-fungible tokens (NFTs), broadening the possibilities of what customers can do with them. Users will be able to sell or transfer the tokens to other travelers up to three days before the applicable flight, for example. Flybondi to Issue NFT Tickets More companies are including NFTs as part of their business models due to the perceived benefits and advantages they can bring. Flybondi, a low-cost Argentine airline, has also....
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Another airline is joining the bitcoin boat (or should we say plane?). This time around it is Air Lituanica, a small airline based in Lithuania that operated scheduled flights throughout Europe. The announcement was made this week via the airline's official Twitter account, noted that the digital currency (referred to as "bit-coin" in the tweet) can be used for ticket purchases on all flights. The airline, which operates a fleet of 86-seat Embraer 175 aircraft, carries out regional flights from a number of cities, of which include Paris, Amsterdam, Vilnius, and Prague. We are now accepting....
Poland’s national airline LOT announced August 4 that airline tickets can now be purchased with bitcoin. LOT airlines is Poland’s state-owned carrier and still perceived by some as a non-innovative post-communist era relic. Now with the acceptance of bitcoin for ticket purchases, however, the company has entered a new world of digital payments. Tickets can be purchased on the airline’s website or via its mobile app. The transaction is “convenient and fully secure,” according to a press release. Part of the announcement reads: “The new payment method is addressed to everybody who has a....
NFTickets could potentially allow airlines and events to increase their revenue through resales on the secondary market. Many companies and industries are incorporating Web3 technologies into their business structures, and the travel industry is no exception.On Wednesday, Flybondi, an Argentinian airline, announced a strategic alliance with TravelX, a blockchain technology company responsible for tokenizing flight tickets. The partnership intends to enable travelers to purchase airline tickets as nonfungible tokens through Binance Pay, using USD Coin (USDC) as payment for transactions.....
One of the United Arab Emirates (UAE)’s leading airlines, Emirates Airline, said it has plans to add “bitcoin as a payment service.” The airline is planning to recruit personnel to create applications that monitor client needs.
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The United Arab Emirates (UAE)’s leading airline, Emirates Airline, will soon embrace “bitcoin as a payment service,” the company’s chief operating officer (COO) Adel Ahmed Al-Redha has said. In addition, the airline will add non-fungible token (NFT) collectibles on....
CheapAir.com, the online travel agency that began accepting bitcoin before it was the cool thing to do (that's a joke, put your pitch fork away), has made an announcement this morning regarding a recently-held contest. The company recently announced they have exceeded $1.5 million USD worth of sales paid for using bitcoin - sales which include hotel, Amtrak and airline bookings. The company began accepting the digital currency in November of last year following a request from a so-called "intrepid customer" who had asked whether or not he could use bitcoin to pay for an airline ticket. "If....