Bolt launches Flight Tracking for Scheduled Rides

Bolt volition automatically update airdrome pick-up times for delayed and cancelled flights

From today, Bolt customers tin sync their formation details erstwhile scheduling a thrust to prime them up from the airdrome with Flight Tracking. If a customer’s formation is delayed oregon cancelled, Bolt volition automatically set their Scheduled Ride’s pick-up clip oregon cancel the travel astatine nary other cost.

Customers request to pat the ‘Schedule’ fastener connected their location surface adjacent to the destination hunt and participate the pick-up determination (arrival airport) and destination from determination arsenic accustomed to commencement scheduling their ride. They tin take ‘Add formation details’ and prime the flight’s landing date, formation number, airline, oregon departure metropolis and take the circumstantial flight. To pass the clip their travel is updated to if their formation is delayed, customers volition besides request to take however galore minutes aft landing they’d similar to beryllium picked up. From there, Bolt volition automatically use immoderate updates successful cases of delayed oregon cancelled flights.

Sandra Suzanne Buyole Regional PR Manager astatine Bolt said: “Today, Bolt is 1 of 30+ airports’ authoritative ride-hailing partners crossed the world, including Kotoka International Airport. This means Bolt customers tin question straight from Arrivals much easy than ever, without needing to find a abstracted pick-up point. With Flight Tracking for Scheduled Rides, our backstage and Bolt Business customers tin present sync their formation details erstwhile scheduling a thrust to prime them up from the airport. If their formation is delayed oregon cancelled, we’ll automatically set their Scheduled Ride’s pick-up clip oregon cancel the travel astatine nary other cost. That means they tin walk arsenic small clip astatine the airdrome arsenic imaginable with guaranteed rides connected arrival, adjacent astatine off-peak oregon engaged hours.”

It’s the latest upgrade to Bolt’s Scheduled Rides work since the booking model was extended to 90 days past year. Bolt offers a assortment of caller Scheduled Rides categories to docket globally and personalise these based connected section marketplace needs.

As airports are the astir fashionable destination for Bolt trips, the level has introduced a fig of caller and upgraded features that amended enactment customers’ airdrome acquisition online and off. Easy-to-follow in-app directions with photos assistance customers get from their determination successful the airdrome to the Bolt pick-up area, and with airdrome branding, Bolt aims to marque it adjacent easier for customers to spot pick-up areas.

Pick-up codes disposable astatine Kotoka Airport assistance bounds waiting clip for airdrome pick-ups by matching a customer’s travel with the adjacent disposable operator spouse successful the airport’s ride-hailing queue.