<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner>KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 17): AirAsia Bhd group chief executive Tan Sri Tony Fernandes in his latest tweet urged travelers to download a Bigpay app which he said would save them at least 4% on travel and exchange rates.</div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner>Bigpay is AirAsia’s digital wallet provider.</div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner>“Download this app http://bit.ly/bigpayios&nbsp; . Bigpay will&nbsp; save you at least 4 Percent when you travel and save on exchange rates,” he said.</div><div class=inPageAd id=div-gpt-ad-inpage></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner>Fernandes had recently said that BigPay is a digital wallet which will do foreign exchange remittance and even moneylending services in due course, riding on AirAsia’s huge database of 63 million names.</div>

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 17): AirAsia Bhd group chief executive Tan Sri Tony Fernandes in his latest tweet urged travelers to download a Bigpay app which he said would save them at least 4% on travel and exchange rates.

Bigpay is AirAsia’s digital wallet provider.

“Download this app ...

Fernandes tweets Bigpay app, says will save travelers 4% 

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