Abhibus witnesses 100% increase in engagement with 50 Lakh online #bus bookings since lockdown
Ø Across states, multiple Inter-state routes are showing massive recovery in November
Ø Hyderabad-Vijayawada tops the list with 84000 bookings followed by the Delhi-Jammu Route
Ø The spike is triggered further by the festivity movement in the last one month
November 13,th 2020, Chennai: AbhiBus, a leading online bus travel aggregator has witnessed 100% spike in its engagement since lockdown with 5 Million online bus bookings since lockdown. This development is a result with the gradual ease in the lockdown and with festivities wherein people started traveling across states that was restricted otherwise in the past 6-7 months. The online bus aggregator has recorded an average daily booking rate of 50000 within 3 days of the Dussehra weekend.
The Hyderabad-Vijayawada route has witnessed the maximum bookings with 84000 even after state owned transports including APSRTC & TSRTC starting operations in late October. The Delhi-Jammu route surprisingly saw a remarkable spike in traffic with around 31000 online bookings that is primarily triggered by travelers visiting Vaishno Devi from across the country during Navratri and thereafter. The Delhi-Jammu route has also overtaken the previously most engaged route in the North for Abhibus i.e. the Delhi-Lucknow route by 2X which has witnessed a traffic of around 15000 this festive season as working professionals have started moving back towards NCR from their natives.
Sharing his insight to this exponential spike in engagement during the festivity, Rohit Sharma, Chief Operating Officer of Abhibus said, “We were expecting our November bookings count to exceed the booking we made in Last November. Interestingly, during Covid lockdown, the intra state travel was 80% and inter-state 20% which got reversed to 70% bookings for inter-state travel and 30% for intra-state travel post unlock 5.0. The sentiments of the people played a critical role in this recent spike as everyone’s life was paused during the lockdown and people were craving to move out whether it is for leisure travel or working Millennials moving back to the metros”.
Other that the top two routes the other regions wherein Abhibus witnessed considerable engagement is Pune-Nagpur with 14500 seats bookings in the last one month as Maharashtra was under lockdown for the longest period and bus movements have started in the second half of October. The Jaipur – Delhi route too have seen a decent traffic with 13,000 seat bookings as people and businessmen started moving back to NCR. Tamil Nadu being the last state to relax inbound traffic has also seen 10x increase with 31,800 bookings in last 10 days.
Additionally AbhiBus provides Online Reservation solutions to over 300 private and 5 RTC operators that witnessed over 2 crore tickets sold during this period where online reservations touched a highest ever 50%.
About AbhiBus:
Founded in the year 2008, AbhiBus Services (India) Private Limited is India’s leading Online Travel Aggregator. AbhiBus is a pioneer in providing end-to-end software and other value-added solutions to the Private Bus Transport industry as well as government RTCs, currently leading the table in online bus ticketing by leveraging the latest technologies. The company also provides e-ticketing solutions to 3000 private operators, technology solutions & Online Passenger Reservation System to more than 650 private bus operators & 13 State Road Transport Corporations across India. Their end-to-end software solutions include fleet management solutions, vehicle tracking systems, passenger information systems and logistics management backed by a 24×7 customer support center. AbhiBus has over 5 million active users per month and more than 6.5 million app downloads being the highest rated travel app on Android & iOS. With a ticket inventory from over 3000 bus operators serving 100,000 routes Pan India, AbhiBus is the preferred e-ticketing choice for millions of customers in the country today.