One of the United Arab Emirates (UAE)'s leading airlines, Emirates Airline, said it has plans to add "bitcoin as a payment service." The airline is planning to recruit personnel to create applications that monitor client needs.

Two Different Applications and Approaches

The United Arab Emirates (UAE)'s leading airline, Emirates Airline, will soon embrace "bitcoin as a payment service," the company's chief operating officer (COO) Adel Ahmed Al-Redha has said. In addition, the airline will add non-fungible token (NFT) collectibles on its webpage.

Reports of the airline's plan to embrace bitcoin come just a few weeks after it revealed its NFT and metaverse plans. As reported by Bitcoin.com News, the company's goal with the metaverse launch is to ensure the airline is "aligned with the UAE's vision for the digital economy."