Amazon to introduce bus booking service in partnership with redBus

by B2B Desk 2019-11-27 08:16:18

After leaving the Chinese market, Internet billionaire Jeff Bezos is doing everything possible to ensure that business in India continues "very well", Bezos recently reported on the growth of Amazon India.

The company Amazon, which sells almost everything within 17 broad categories, quickly adds one service after another, becoming a super application, an app that hosts many applications. After adding flight tickets in May this year and movie tickets earlier this month, Flipkart's rival on Tuesday added bus ticket booking in collaboration with redBus, owned by MakeMyTrip.

The link will allow Amazon's customer base to book tickets for more than 50,000 routes in India, It can also benefit from an extensive network of RedBus bus operators, customers. RedBus currently has a network of more than 3,000 bus operators, however, it is located in India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Peru and Colombia, while its customer base is about 20 million users.

Amazon customers will also get access to the redBus bus rating service and direct bus tracking. Bus ticket booking adds to Amazon's growing list of services, which also includes money transfers, bill payments, mobile recharge, etc., as well as purchases. This also provides an additional opportunity for Amazon to integrate Amazon Pay, Amazon Pay UPI or Amazon Pay ICICI credit card service as a payment method for customers.

Regarding the cancellation, customers will be fined as determined by the operator, Amazon added that it will not charge additional fees. “Over time, Amazon has become a unique destination for our customers' shopping and payment needs,” said Vikas Bansal, director of Amazon Pay in a statement. At the end of 2014, Amazon entered the hotel reservation service, which had to be closed in a few months in 2015 without explaining why, such as Amazon and WeChat from China, the leading technology companies In India, like Flipkart, Ola and Paytm, are also on the same path to become a super app.