KYIV. Feb 24 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Busfor Ukraine, the online bus ticket service intends to introduce some new products for bus passengers in 2017, Busfor Ukraine Head Oleksandr Pavlovich has said.
“Busfor focuses on improving the quality of the sector. We cannot influence on vehicles, but we can place efforts in other things. What are we doing? We actively take part in the e-ticket introduction project of the Infrastructure Ministry. We are introducing services which passengers can receive from us,” he said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine.
He said that a problem when the trip is canceled due to technical or weather reasons and passengers are not insured against this.
“We are drawing up insurance policies against cancelation of trips of baggage loss jointly with insurance companies. No one has provided yet these services and we will be the first,” Pavlovich said.
In addition, the company is designing a food delivery service before the trip to solve the problems with food with the help of partners. Food can be selected on the website in advance.
“Soon we plan to add photos of buses. Passengers would be able to assess them before the trip. This is important for the passengers… We want to experiment with 3D photos of buses,” he said.
Busfor in 2016 sold around 1 million of bus tickets. Its founders are Illia Yekushevsky and Artem Altukhov.
