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BigPay and AirAsia strengthens partnership to offer travel discounts, starting with full-year 5% off AirAsia flights

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia,  1 March 2023 - BigPay and AirAsia strengthens its partnership in 2023 to offer users year long travel discounts, starting with 5% off AirAsia flights when they pay with their BigPay physical or virtual card. Since its inception, BigPay has been well-loved for its travel proposition as it helps users save with airasia deals, and earn airasia points while doing their everyday payments and transactions in the app.

BigPay is widely accepted across over 64 million Visa merchants worldwide and users are able to withdraw cash from their BigPay account through any ATM overseas that accepts Visa. Apart from providing a seamless spending experience, BigPay’s security feature ensures that users are able to freeze their card in the event of a lost or stolen card via the app immediately. 

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To enjoy the discount, users can simply key in the promo code: “BIGPAY5” when searching for their flight via airasia superapp or the airasia website. 

For more information on the exclusive promo, please visit: https://bigpay.link/bigpayxAA5



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BigPay is an ASEAN fintech company with proud Malaysian roots founded in 2017. The company is committed to democratising financial literacy, accessibility, and wellbeing in the region by providing accessible, transparent, simple and secure digital financial services. From payments to international transfers, credit, micro-insurance, personal loans, and smart budgeting, the goal is to drive sustainable change for consumers and businesses across Southeast Asia.  

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