American Airlines partners with decentralized travel market Winding Tree
Ethereum-based decentralized travel marketplace Winding Tree has announced a new collaboration with American Airlines that will allow select travelers to receive tailored booking options, opening up a potential new use case for blockchain technology. Through the collaboration, American’s largest corporate travel buyers will have access to Winding Tree’s marketplace to book travel directly and receive […]
Subsidiary of Mexican airline Volaris to accept Bitcoin payments
As a result of El Salvador’s mainstream Bitcoin (BTC) adoption, Volaris El Salvador, a local subsidiary of budget Mexican airline Volaris, will accept Bitcoin as payment. The Bitcoin move comes a month after Salvadoran aviation authorities gave Volaris’ local subsidiary permission to operate in the country. Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele took to Twitter to announce […]
Gazprom Neft uses blockchain tech to streamline aircraft refueling
Russian oil firm Gazprom Neft’s aviation subsidiary — Gazpromneft-Aero — announced Monday that it has completed a successful pilot of its blockchain-based refueling project, Smart Fuel. The new platform was implemented for more than 100 scheduled flights of Russian budget airline Smartavia, operating at the international airport of Murmansk. Alongside Smartavia, the pilot involved major banks […]
IOTA blockchain used to track COVID-19 test results at Frankfurt Airport
Ubrich GmbH is providing a solution using IOTA to the Frankfurt Airport Corona Testing Center.