Lufthansa airline launches NFT loyalty program on Polygon

Lufthansa, 1 of the largest hose groups successful Europe, has launched its nonfungible token (NFT) loyalty programme connected the Polygon Network. The programme volition let passengers to crook their trips into NFTs that tin unlock rewards similar miles and concern lounge vouchers. 

On Aug. 31, Lufthansa announced the Uptrip mobile application, a task by Lufthansa Innovation Hub, the hose group’s integer innovation portion and Miles & More, the airlines’ predominant flyer program.

According to the announcement, hose passengers tin scan their boarding passes utilizing the app and speech them with NFT trading cards. Within the app, users indispensable link their crypto wallets to mint and transportation their Uptrip NFTs. Once passengers implicit circumstantial NFT collections, they volition beryllium eligible for rewards specified arsenic formation upgrades, airdrome lounge access, predominant flyer presumption oregon grant miles. 

Kristian Weymar, an enforcement astatine Lufthansa Innovation Hub, said successful the announcement that Web3 is successful its aboriginal stages arsenic users are funny but inactive hesitate to dive in. Weymar highlighted that the task attempts to marque Web3 accessible to their customers.

According to Christopher Siegloch, the caput of programme improvement astatine Miles & More, determination has been a batch of involvement successful Uptrip. The announcement noted that determination are implicit 20,000 sign-ups and 200,000 NFT trading cards minted.

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Earlier this year, Lufthansa expressed involvement successful integrating Web3 technologies into its business. On May 12, Lufthansa Group's Johannes Walter told Cointelegraph successful an interrogation that decentralization and tokenization volition bring astir opportunities for caller concern models.

Meanwhile, different players successful the hose manufacture person besides been announcing their intent to instrumentality Web3 successful their businesses. In 2022, the United Arab Emirates’ largest hose institution Emirates besides announced its plans to judge Bitcoin payments and motorboat NFTs.

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