Qantas Airlines Enters Crypto Fly Zone With NFT Drop
Last April, Latvian airline airBaltic declared it would become the world’s first commercial carrier to issue non-fungible tokens. Now, Australia’s flag carrier Qantas has jumped on the digital asset bandwagon. The airline stated on Tuesday that it was preparing to launch a new collection of NFT digital art collectibles. NFTs appear to be ubiquitous these […]
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Universal Air Travel Plan (UATP) is bringing more than 300 airline members and travel merchants cryptocurrency payment options. Airlines in the UATP network include Air Canada, Air China, Delta, Frontier, Japan Airlines, Jetblue, Qantas, Southwest, and United.
UATP Gets Into Crypto
UATP is an airline-owned global payment network accepted by thousands of merchants worldwide for air, rail, hotel, and travel agency payments.
UATP announced Wednesday that it has partnered with Bitpay “to offer its network the ability to accept payments quickly and easily in....
Universal Air Travel Plan (UATP), a payment network owned by major international airlines such as American Airways, British Airways and Lufthansa, has partnered with bitcoin payment processor Bitnet. The integration allows over 260 of UATP's airlines to accept bitcoin through Bitnet, starting today. Introduced in 1936, UATP is credited with issuing the first-ever charge card. As of 2014, the company processes around $14bn in payments from corporate customers, travel agents and retail consumers. Additional UATP merchants include JetBlue, Qantas, US Airways and United Airlines. Akif Khan,....
Earlier today, United Airlines experienced why it is not the best idea to rely on centralized servers or services. Especially not when the entire process takes an hour and a half to fully resolve itself. The end result was that hundreds of the company’s flights had been grounded, leading to rather lengthy delays across the US. United Airlines Is one of the largest airlines in the continental US, as millions of people use their planes on a monthly basis. It should come as no surprise then to find out that, even though bigger flight companies are slightly more prone to delays, having all of....
American Airlines has stopped accepting payments in Argentine pesos. This decision the result of Argentine government’s currency controls that make it difficult to convert pesos into dollars to repatriate earnings. The constraints on buying dollars have been becoming untenable for a while. American Airlines “had been limiting its Argentine peso holdings....
For all you bitcoin lovers who've always wanted to get your hands on frequent flyer mileage, now just might be your chance. Through a special partnership between bitcoin payment processor Bitnet and payment network Universal Air Travel Plan (UATP), over 250 airlines are now allowing customers and flight fanatics alike to pay for the travel tickets in bitcoin. This is probably the biggest thing for "irl" bitcoin users since Expedia began accepting the digital currency. UATP CEO and president Ralph Kaiser was particularly enthusiastic when speaking of the partnership, explaining: "We are....