Tuesday, 3 June 2014

The Layman’s Guide to book Kerala bus tickets online



Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) is the pioneer organisation in the state in the public transport industry. Launched during the 1938, KSRTC has been serving the citizens relentlessly with high quality service in terms of number of vehicles and comfort. With the internet wave sweeping across the transport sector, KSRTC too started its online ticketing service for the benefit of thousands of its registered users. It takes just minutes to book Kerala bus tickets online, which is why most of the passengers prefer this mode as compared to the earlier method of getting their tickets booked at the reservation counters of the KSRTC office.

KSRTC tickets online can be done on buses plying to and fro from important locations like Palakkad, Kannur, Kozhikode, Trissur, Kottayam, Ernakulam, Thiruvananthapuram Central, Bangalore Majestic, Bangalore Satellite and Kottarakkara. While doing an online booking, passengers must be ready to shell out additional 20 INR per ticket towards transaction charges in addition to the reservation charges of 10 INR per ticket. In order to book Kerala bus tickets online, one needs to enter into the official portal, www.keralartc.com. From here, one must choose the ticket booking option, which will lead to the page, where users can enter their user id and password. New users can register themselves by providing basic information like name, contact address, mobile number, etc. 

The next page will then ask the user to choose from the source and destination stations. After entering the same, the user should click on the ‘find buses’ option to get a list of buses plying between the two stations and the seat availability for that particular day plus the following 21 days. KSRTC tickets online booking is indeed beneficial because the user is presented with a host of bus options to choose from depending on his comfortable timings. This screen shows other important details as well like the departure time, type of bus, via route, bus fare, etc.

Users can choose the particular bus that they want and click on the same, after which they will be directed to the page where they can book the number of seats they want. A picture showing the seat position in the bus is available to the user here. After selecting the seats, users should proceed to book ticket option, where he has to enter the passenger details and select the station where they would board from. The next is the payment screen where VISA or MasterCard Credit/Debit cards can be used for making payment. The confirmed ticket is then displayed in a PDF format on the screen, which the user can save on his system.


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