Emirates Airline accepts Bitcoin payments and introduces NFT collection

Emirates Airline accepts Bitcoin payments and introduces NFT collection

Emirates, the largest airline in the United Arab Emirates, announced their intention to add Bitcoin as a payment option and to do NFT collectors on the company's website.

The airline with its headquarters in Dubai also hopes to be able to use the blockchain technology in the persecution of aircraft recordings given Al-Redha, Chief Operating Officer from Emirates, at a media meeting at the international travel fair Arabian Travel Market.

The COO did not say when the new functions would be available, but revealed plans for the hiring of new employees who will concentrate on the implementation and management of crypto payments, blockchain tracking, meta-verse and non-fungal tokens (NFT) projects.

He added that these blockchain-related plans were part of the network operator's strategy to "better monitor customer needs" and to make operation, training and website sales into "more interactive" processes.

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Since more and more companies based in Dubai are opting for blockchain and crypto, Dubais Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (Vara) has also undertaken their official advance into the meta -verses. The regulatory authority for cryptocurrencies recently acquired land in the metaverse of The Sandbox to build a virtual headquarters or "Metahq".

A number of other airlines already accept cryptocurrencies as a means of payment. The Latvian airline Airbaltic was the world's first to accept Bitcoin payments for its flight tickets in 2014 also accepts ether and Dogecoin .

in October 2021 el Salvadors President Nayib Bukele announced Central American low -cost airline Volaris would accept Bitcoin, but this plan has not yet been implemented.

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