{"id":39756,"date":"2021-03-29T16:37:10","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T13:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=39756"},"modified":"2025-08-30T11:09:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T08:09:24","slug":"airbaltic-adds-ability-to-pay-for-tickets-with-ethereum-and-dogecoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/airbaltic-adds-ability-to-pay-for-tickets-with-ethereum-and-dogecoin\/","title":{"rendered":"airBaltic adds ability to pay for tickets with Ethereum and Dogecoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Latvian airline airBaltic has added the option to pay for tickets using Ethereum, Dogecoin, Bitcoin Cash, USD Coin, Binance Dollar, Gemini Dollar and Paxos.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In 2014, we became the world\u2019s first airline to accept Bitcoin payments for flight tickets. Now, in cooperation with service provider <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BitPay?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BitPay<\/a>, we accept also other cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin Cash, Ether and Dogecoin for bookings made on our website: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dEYDU2KhDD\">https:\/\/t.co\/dEYDU2KhDD<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2xHyyAK1Fz\">pic.twitter.com\/2xHyyAK1Fz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 airBaltic (@airBaltic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/airBaltic\/status\/1376430873805996032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 29, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>In 2014, airBaltic became the first airline in the world to add Bitcoin as a payment method.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>&#8220;About 1,000 customers have used this option since its integration,&#8221;<\/em>, said the carrier\u2019s chief, Martin Gauss.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ticket prices are denominated in euros. BitPay handles automatic conversion of cryptocurrencies to fiat at purchase.<\/p>\n<p>As reported in January, the Travala blockchain hotel-booking service <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/travala-to-accept-tezos-xtz-as-payment-for-3-million-travel-products\">added Tezos to 30 other cryptocurrencies<\/a> for the payment of 3 million travel product options.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to the ForkLog channel on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCC9FnXTC8_ENzaNSO5cHQ6g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> YouTube<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Latvian airline airBaltic has added the option to pay for tickets with Ethereum, Dogecoin, Bitcoin Cash, USD Coin, Binance Dollar, Gemini Dollar and Paxos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1625,1198,99,46,1504,1598,1522,910],"class_list":["post-39756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-binance-usd-busd","tag-crypto-payments","tag-dogecoin","tag-ethereum","tag-paxos","tag-tourism","tag-transport","tag-usdc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"60","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39758,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39756\/revisions\/39758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}