UK-based travel company Alternative Airlines has added support for Dogecoin, allowing customers to pay for flights with the meme coin. This adds another use case for DOGE, which is a positive for its price.
Alternative Airlines Enables Support For Dogecoin
The travel company revealed that customers can buy flights with Dogecoin, with the meme coin listed as a payment option at checkout. The booking company joins the likes of AirBaltic and Cielo Aviation, which also accept Dogecoin for ticket payments through their partnership with Bitpay.
Alternative Airlines also highlighted the benefits of using DOGE for ticket payments, including how it has better transaction per second (TPS) in comparison to other major cryptos. DOGE is said to be able to handle 30 transactions per second, while Ethereum and Bitcoin can handle 25 and 6, respectively.
Furthermore, the travel company also declared that DOGE has a “bright future.” They alluded to the 2021 cycle when the DOGE price recorded significant gains. The company also noted that the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, has shilled the meme coin on several occasions, and there are predictions that it could become a top 4 crypto by market cap.
Meanwhile, it is worth mentioning that Elon Musk’s X is one of the companies that could potentially accept DOGE for payments at some point, especially with the planned X payments rollout. Musk’s automotive company, Tesla, already accepts the meme coin for the purchase of some select merchandise.
Additionally, SpaceX, another of Elon Musk’s companies, accepted Dogecoin for the launch of DOGE-1 to the moon. Musk’s support for Dogecoin also influenced the naming of a government agency (D.O.G.E) after the foremost meme coin.
Plans To Further Boost DOGE’s Utility
House of Doge, the corporate arm of the Dogecoin Foundation, recently revealed plans to expand Dogecoin’s use case. In an X post, they stated that their mission is to make DOGE payment integration seamless worldwide. House of Doge also highlighted how the acceptance of DOGE benefits merchants.
They stated that the Dogecoin payments will cut out the middlemen, slash fees, and remove payment friction. The company recently provided a major boost for DOGE with its purchase of a stake in the Swiss Ice Hockey club HC Sierre. House of Doge plans to use this move to “bring the spirit of Dogecoin directly into the fabric of gameday culture.”
House of Doge has already committed to integrating DOGE payments at home venues for tickets and merchandise. DOGE is no stranger in the sports industry, as the NBA team Dallas Mavericks accepts DOGE for ticket payments.
At the time of writing, the DOGE price is trading at around $0.2, up over 6% in the last 24 hours, according to data from CoinMarketCap.
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