ETW Staff – Mumbai
Online bus ticket booking portal, abhibus.com has been appointed by Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) as a franchisee for its B2C bookings. The portal will be now able to sell tickets for the APSRTC network in cities, towns and villages in Andhra Pradesh as well as beyond the state’s borders. APSRTC is currently powered by the online passenger reservation system provided by Abhibus Services India. APSRTC bus tickets inventory will now be available for the first time on abhibus.com apart from being available on apsrtconline.in.
Talking about the appointment, Sudhakar Reddy Chirra, founder and CEO, Abhibus, said, “We are extremely proud to be chosen as one of the B2C franchisee for APSRTC. This is a great boost for us at abhibus.com. This takes up our current inventory up from 5.5 lakh seats daily to eight lakh seats and adds up over 9000 bus services. Currently abhibus.com provides bus ticket inventory from over 1500 operators and 15,000 routes.”
“Bus travel is one of the oldest and most economical ways to travel across the country and our aim is to revolutionise this space with meaningful and cutting-edge offerings and services. We intend to add more services for our customers so that they don’t need to go to multiple sites anymore to book their bus tickets. We aim to simplify the entire process and provide more and better search results every time consumers search for their next bus,” he added.
