Latvian Airlines Airbaltic “Pay for your boarding pass with Bitcoin”

[Digital Today Reporter Choo Hyun-woo] European Latvia’s private airline Air Baltic supports virtual assets (cryptocurrency) for payment of boarding passes for aircraft.

On the 29th (local time), Air Baltic announced through an official press release that Bitcoin (BTC), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Ethereum (ETH), Dogecoin (DOGE) and 4 It has announced that it will accept payments in US dollar fixed stablecoins (GUSD, USDC, PAX and BUSD).

This virtual asset payment is made through an alliance with BitPay, a virtual asset payment service provider in the United States. When paying with virtual assets, transaction fees are free, and boarding passes must be booked 5 days before departure. Air Baltic has been supporting Bitcoin payments since 2014.

“Air Baltic has always been committed to providing a leading customer experience as an innovative airline,” said Martin Gauss Baltic, CEO of Baltic.

In addition to Air Baltic, airlines that support virtual asset payments can pay Ethereum by Hahn Air in Germany. Travel reservation platform Travala (Travala.com) has also been supporting payment of virtual assets such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, and Binance Coin for flight reservation services from 2020.