German flight airline Hahn Air Tickets on the Blockchain
The adaptation of the Blockchain technology is advancing in the world, so that the trust and acceptance continue to rise. The Blockchain comes in various industrial sectors for the application, including ticket reservations of airlines.
The airline valve, the Airline, the scheduled and Charter flights in the whole of Europe offering, announced on Monday that it has entered into with the Open Source travel distribution platform, Winding Tree, a partnership, to the Ticketing process faster, more efficient and more transparent (freely translated):
It is important to look to the future, to understand how we make the Distribution faster can make
said Jörg Troester, head of the Department of corporate strategy, government and industry Affairs of Hahn Air, told Reuters. The new Ticketing process started quickly, because the first passengers of the new system, flew yesterday from Dusseldorf to Luxembourg. Hahn also offers distribution solutions for travel agencies. After the flight, the airline planned to analyze the performance of the system and determine how it is commercialized could be.
The company describes that the Winding Tree platform allowed for a more efficient listing of stocks, the management of reservation requests and payments via cash, credit card, or crypto-currency. Although Hahn Air claims to be the first airline, the Blockchain-based Ticketing offers, a set operator in the whole of Europe, the technology for different applications. In July, S7 Airlines, Russia’s second-largest airline, announced their own Blockchain-Ticketing platform had been collected within one month over 1 Million dollars.
S7 said that it used an Ethereum-based private Blockchain platform, which was developed in cooperation with the Russian commercial Bank Alfa-Bank. But the plans of the airlines, don’t make Blockchain-Tickets support. Also in July, one of the largest known low-cost airlines, Norwegian Air, that she plans in addition to the acceptance of Bitcoin payments, the operation of a private crypto-exchange.
Already in July, Norwegian announced that customers residing in Norway currencies, the purchase of airline tickets for flights to Crypto, including Bitcoin, to allow. The Norwegian stock exchange (NBX) is already in place since August. Norwegian will open the Exchange in the coming months to neighboring countries. NBX will integrate the existing rewards program of Norwegian Air, and customers can earn by trading on the stock exchange, points that can be redeemed for discounts on Tickets and other perks.
The customers of the NBX will have the opportunity to acquire ATM in the trading on the stock exchange, and in payment transactions with the payment solution NBX-share for the airline,
A. Kjos-Mathisen, who will be leading the stock exchange, said Stig. Norwegian Air operates a fleet of 195 aircraft, which flies about 500 routes around the world. Norwegian is not the first trip, the crypto currencies are accepted, the California-based Online travel Agency CheapAir accepts Bitcoin since 2013. The Hostel and hotel-AO Hostels Bitcoin is accepted also for the year 2017 and is regarded in Germany as a pioneer.
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