Ticket on your fingertips

New Delhi: Now, an SMS is all that you need to book an air seat.
And it’s all so easy — send an SMS to 6858 or 4242 saying, for example, ‘FLY Delhi Mumbai 20 December’.
In 15 seconds, you will get a reply listing top 11 flight options with the lowest fare on top. Another SMS by you saying ‘FLY book’ will get you a reply promising a call from their executive, this time within 15 minutes. Alternatively, you could visit the website (www.flightraja.com) and complete the formalities. Your ticket is done!
And if all goes as planned, in a few months it will be possible to book a ticket through SMS without any human interface, says Ashwini Kakkar, partner, flightraja.com. According to Kakkar, 6 million mobile connections were added in India in October alone.
23/11/06 Ravi Teja Sharma/Business Standard

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