India’s biggest online travel service, Makemytrip (NASDAQ:MMYT), finally has an iPhone app to its name. Coming two months after the launch of its Android app, it means that iPhone users can now also do lots of things on Makemytrip via their smartphones: compare fares, book flights, manage trip itineraries, and check flight schedules.
Announced on the Makemytrip official blog, the company claims that it “now has the distinction of being the only Indian online travel company to have an iPhone app in the App Store.” Unfortunately there’s no dedicated iPad app, and the new app isn’t ‘universal’ either. Makemytrip already has an app for BlackBerry devices, and a general mobile website that’s optimised for smartphones, giving the company a way to reach out to pretty much all of the country’s middle- to upper-income demographics.
The iPhone app promises secure online payments that accept credit cards, debit cards, and net-banking. The fact that Makemytrip targets wealthier consumers therefore makes it immune from the e-payments issue that’s holding back Indian e-commerce as a whole. There’s also some bare-bones social support in the app, letting you post to Facebook and Twitter from within it.
Get the new Makemytrip iPhone app in the iTunes store, or the young-ish Android version is in Google Play.
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