Rail booking gets real easy via text message in India
Skift Take
From Kingfisher's demise to Etihad's investment in Jet Airways, airlines have dominated headlines about India as of late, but a lot of the real action is taking place in the rail sector. PhoCusWright, for example, projects that rail will gain share in the overall India travel market over the next couple of years.
The novel, easy-to-use train ticket booking service through mobile phones announced in the 2012-13 Railway Budget kicked off from Monday in India.
Instead of standing in serpentine queues or hunting for an Internet connection, tickets can now be booked within minutes from any basic mobile phone through SMS using two dedicated numbers -- 139 and 5676714.
A senior railway official here explained the new time-saving scheme to the Kahleej Times.
You have to register the mobile number with your b
