saturday,febraury16,2008
For
air tickets on cell Phones
E-commerce player MakeMYTrip has launched a system that lets customers to search, book, pay for and receive domestic air tickets on
mobile phones.Sachin Bhatia, the company''''s chief,said his is the first travel company, working with mCheck, to offer a true mobile commerece platform for travellers in India."it.. strengthens the existing channels of access that we offer. our mobile booking facility is now accessible to the user-base of 60 million Airtel subscribers." A GPRS subscription is not needed for this. customer send ''''MakeMyTrip'''' as sms to 543219. A menu appearing on the screen allows them to search, book and pay for tickets through their handsets, completing the entire transaction.
A e-ticket and PNR
number will be delivered to the handset. The system links users'''' credit cards to their mobile numbers through a one- time registration.There will be an mCheck PIN number.