A German airline just flew 3 execs holding blockchain tickets
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A German airline just flew 3 execs holding blockchain tickets
A German airline has claimed to be the first to allow passengers holding blockchain-based tickets to board a flight, Reuters reports.
Hahn Air, which boasts a modest fleet of two charter jets, leveraged Winding Tree's open-source distributed ledger to issue three tickets for a flight from Dusseldorf to Luxembourg on Monday.
While these may very well be the first blockchain-powered tickets to be accepted by an airline, Hahn Air is yet to incorporate them commercially. The tickets were used by the airline's head of sales engineering and two Winding Tree execs.
A Hahn Air exec reportedly commented that Hahn Air is not at the point of commercializing the blockchain-powered tickets just yet, but that the company will be looking into it.
"We are not at that point right now," they said.
Mostly, Hahn Air serves as a ticketing solution for travel agents, as its fleet is incredibly small. On the other hand, Winding Tree is a non-profit organization that previously raised money with an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) on the Ethereum blockchain to fund the dev