Hyderabad, Feb 25  AbhiBus.com, a leading online
e-ticketing platform that aggregates solutions to 3000
private bus operators and all leading state Road Transport
Corporations (RTCs) across the country on Thursday
announced that it has signed an agreement with  India’s
largest ticket booking platform, Indian Railway Catering
and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC)  to offer bus tickets on
IRCTC’s website and mobile app.

While IRCTC enables over 9 lakh train tickets every day,
at the same time, this collaboration will open bus ticket
booking window to IRCTC customers wherein Abhibus will
enable the bus ticketing option on IRCTC’s platform pan
India.

With this partnership, IRCTC will get the bus inventory
across 100,000 Bus routes and IRCTC customers will get
options to book tickets for Sleeper/Non-sleeper, Ac/Non-
AC buses as per their requirement,  Hyderabad based
company abhibus.com, which catered to over 45 million
customers till date since its started its online passenger
reservation system, said in a release here.

With this collaboration, IRCTC plans to ease travel
booking for its customers wherein if they find train tickets
in the waiting list, they can quickly refer to bus availability
without hopping from one platform to another, giving the
travellers a hassle-free booking experience.

Commenting on the tie-up, Mr. Shashanka Koona, Chief
Commercial Officer – AbhiBus said, the partnership with

IRCTC will allow AbhiBus to grow exponentially, while
IRCTC customers will have hassle free and immediate
access to India’s largest online bus inventory with
innovative payment and promotional options to take care
of their first mile, last mile and alternate connectivity
choices.

IRCTC tie-up with AbhiBus will help IRCTC to reach out to
the millions of travellers with the most exhaustive bus
inventory available online for bridging not just the first and
last mile connectivity gaps, but also provide an alternative
travel option in case of train unavailability, IRCTC said in a
statement.

Since the lockdown was eased in September 2020,
AbhiBus has witnessed a staggering increase of nearly
200 per cent in demand over the last 4-5 months.

Their overall bookings have recovered to over 100% of the
pre-Covid peak numbers. This steep rise in numbers can
be attributed to the fact that travel sentiments have
changed significantly as the festive season approached
with a 32 per cent month-on-month increase in October
and 36 percent in November from a booking’s perspective.

Not surprisingly, Goa has been the number one
destination for both short term and long-term visit with 45
per cent Goa visitors having booked their return on
AbhiBus platform within 4 days of stay and the rest
booking their return after 15-20 days of stay, the release
said.

AbhiBus is also a leading, technology solutions provider
that provides a state of art online passenger reservation
system to more than 650 private bus operators and 5
State Road Transport Corporations, including APSRTC,
TSRTC, KSRTC, HRTC (Himachal) and Kerala RTC
across India and it  has consistently clocked over 30,000
bookings per day, over the last three months.

AbhiBus has over 5 million active users per month and
more than 6.5 million app downloads. (UNI)