American ride-hailing large Uber has partnered with AbhiBus, the bus-ticketing arm of Indian journey platform ixigo, to allow intercity bus ticket bookings immediately inside the Uber app.

Customers can entry the characteristic by the Residence or Providers part of the Uber app by deciding on the “Intercity” possibility. They will enter origin, vacation spot and journey date, browse accessible bus providers, choose most well-liked seats and full funds inside the app with out being redirected to an exterior platform.

The combination is powered by AbhiBus’s reserving know-how and operator community. It aggregates ticket stock from greater than 6,200 bus operators masking over 6 lakh routes throughout India.

The reserving interface permits customers to find and examine bus choices, test real-time seat availability, filter by bus varieties similar to AC, Sleeper, Seater, Volvo and Scania, and consider 360-degree bus images on choose routes. Extra options embody stay bus monitoring, 24×7 buyer assist and the “Abhi Assured” possibility, which provides outlined compensation advantages in case of service disruptions.

Praveen Neppalli Naga, Chief Know-how Officer at Uber, stated the combination aligns with the corporate’s broader mobility imaginative and prescient.

“Our mission is to make motion seamless for everybody,” he stated, including that bringing AbhiBus’s stock to the Uber platform would “unlock a brand new dimension of mobility for tens of millions of Indians.”

The launch additionally comes as Uber seems to be to strengthen its place in India’s aggressive ride-hailing sector. The corporate not too long ago infused practically Rs 3,000 crore into its Indian unit, Uber India Techniques, to strengthen its money reserves.

Regardless of the capital infusion, the corporate’s monetary efficiency has confronted stress. In FY25, Uber India’s internet loss surged 17 instances to Rs 1,511 crore from Rs 89 crore within the earlier fiscal, whereas its gross income, together with experience commissions, remained largely flat at Rs 2,604 crore.

AbhiBus is owned by ixigo, listed on Indian exchanges as Le Travenues Know-how Restricted. The corporate operates a number of journey platforms together with ixigo, ConfirmTkt and AbhiBus, providing AI-powered bookings for trains, flights, buses and motels. Within the monetary 12 months ending March 2025, ixigo reported greater than 540 million annual energetic customers.

Ixigo acquired AbhiBus in 2021 by a money and inventory deal.