FlyBuySMS - what's it & how it works?

FlyBuySMS - what's it & how it works?

It's a SMS based ticketing service launched by Kingfisher Airlines as a result of the company's strategic alliance with the India's leadning wireless transactions company, PayMate. This service works for almost all mobile networks in India.

This service is first of its kind in the India Aviation Industry and it's been aimed at providing the customers to Search, Book, and Pay easily using their mobile phones only. It doesn't require the customer to provide any confidential information like Credit Card number, CVV, etc.

The customers who are registered with PayMate will require to use their PIN to complete the transaction and those who're not registered will get a call from the ticket-booking service to get the payment done.

The steps involved in this service are:-

• Search: You need to send a SMS to search all the available flights for you. The format of the SMS should be 'SMS KING <FROM_CITY> <TO_CITY> <DATE_OF_TRAVEL>' to 5667711. For example, 'FLY KING HYDERABAD DELHI 10MAY' will get you all the kingfisher flights available on May 10, 2008 for HYD-DEL route.
• Book: You need to reply the flight of your choice from the reply you get after searching for the available flights. The reply will have all the flights with departure time and best available fares. You need to reply to the SMS with the flight of your choice and the passenger's name.
• Pay: All registered PayMate users can pay by using their PayMate PIN. Non-registered PayMate users will get an automatic IVR call-back to get their payment done in a secure way. The booking details will then be sent shortly via SMS. That's it. You're done with the booking!

This method of booking flight tickets is expected to become quite popular in the near future. Reason being, it doesn't require you to have any Internet Connection, any particular application downloaded and installed on your mobile phone, etc. It needs few simple SMSs and hence it's expected to be pretty convenient for the customers. Have you tried it so far? If not, then you may like to give it a try. It's supposed to have the potential of becoming a one of the most popular ways of booking flight tickets in India. Currently, only Kingfisher flights can be booked using this service. Other major airlines may soon follow.

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