Bolt is extending its Scheduled Rides pre-booking feature’s window from 72 hours to 90 days in response to customer feedback. The ride-hailing platform has seen soaring demand for Scheduled Rides, with demand growing 30 percent month over month.
Extending the time period that a Scheduled Ride can be ordered in advance will upgrade customers’ ride-hailing experience by helping them plan their trips around their city and allow for better planning leading up to a trip abroad. When traveling in their own city, customers can better plan their travel to meetings, special occasions, events, airports, train stations, and bus stations. When traveling, customers can book a Bolt to the airport, from the airport in some cities to the restaurant in the evening after arrival in a new city, then to an event like a concert from there, all 90 days before their trip. In Riyadh and Jeddah, the company also offers the possibility of booking your Bolt to pick you up from the airport 90 days in advance.
Bolt Business customers benefit from access to advance booking for timely travel to meetings and planning trips for company guests to events, while travel industry customers can arrange transport like airport pick-up in advance for their guests.
Haitham Mansour at Bolt said: “We’ve seen tremendous demand for Scheduled Rides since introducing the feature in 2022 in response to customer feedback. By extending the pre-booking window from 72 hours to 90 days, we hope to see the same success. It’s another step toward our mission as enabling customers to plan and predict their ride makes it easier than ever for Bolt and Bolt Business customers to move away from private cars and shift to shared mobility options like ride-hailing.”
Bolt is an European mobility platform with more than 150 million customers in over 45 countries across Europe and Africa. The company seeks to accelerate the transition from owned cars to shared mobility, offering better alternatives for every use case.
