{"id":61442,"date":"2022-05-13T17:46:30","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T14:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=61442"},"modified":"2025-09-05T12:13:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T09:13:25","slug":"emirates-airlines-announces-bitcoin-payments-and-nft-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/emirates-airlines-announces-bitcoin-payments-and-nft-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Emirates Airlines announces Bitcoin payments and NFT collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the world&#8217;s largest airlines, Emirates Airlines, announced Bitcoin payments and the release of an NFT collection. Local media <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/2079876\/business-economy\">report<\/a> this.<\/p>\n<p>At a press briefing, the carrier&#8217;s chief operating officer Adel Ahmed Al-Reda noted Emirates Airlines&#8217; interest in using blockchain for aircraft accounting and in metaverse technology.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;Metaverses will transfer traditional training operations and ticket sales into the digital world, which will make them more interactive,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>To develop new projects, the carrier will hire specialized staff.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in October 2021, the Salvadoran airline Volaris <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.io\/aviakompaniya-volaris-dobavila-oplatu-v-bitkoine-v-salvadore\/\">added Bitcoin payments<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, rates, and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the world&#8217;s largest airlines, Emirates Airlines, announced Bitcoin payments and the release of an NFT collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61443,"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":[1198,1353,1213,1522,42],"class_list":["post-61442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crypto-payments","tag-metaverses","tag-nft","tag-transport","tag-uae"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"13","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61442","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=61442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61444,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61442\/revisions\/61444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}