UAE residents can now pay through Crypto.com Pay on both the airline’s website and its mobile app, with every transaction priced and settled in UAE dirhams. Either way, Crypto.com handles the currency conversion on the back end — the customer pays in crypto, Emirates receives dirhams. Read also: Emirates Crypto Payments Go Live for UAE Residents Buying FlightsThat context matters. Only eligible UAE residents can use Crypto.com Pay to book Emirates flights, with all transactions settled in UAE dirhams rather than held in cryptocurrency. Air Arabia began accepting the AE Coin, a dirham-backed stablecoin, for flight bookings in May 2025, ahead of Emirates’ Crypto.com Pay integration.