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Singapore Airlines plans blockchain tech for frequent flyer spending

Singapore Airlines plans to use blockchain technology to give its frequent flyers a new way to spend their accumulated miles, it said on Monday. The company said a digital wallet app for its KrisFlyer loyalty programme would be launched in about six months and it would be signing up retail partners in the Singapore market to begin with. "I think we are the first airline to do it," Chief Executive Goh Choon Phong told the Singapore Airshow Aviation Leadership Summit, a gathering of aviation leaders on the eve of Asia's largest air show.


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Dubai airport predicts rise in traffic after 2017 growth dips

Dubai International Airport expects double-digit passenger growth to resume as early as 2019, helped by an alliance between the emirate's two airlines, its chief executive said on Monday after reporting the lowest growth in at least nine years. Passengers using the airport, the hub for Middle East airline giant Emirates and a major source of income for Dubai, rose 5.5 percent to 88.2 million in 2017.


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