PASSENGERS using the biggest bus company in Glasgow will be able to use their smartphones as tickets from today.
First Glasgow, which caters for two million trips every week, has launched the new mTicket app to allow people to purchase tickets on their smartphone.
It means passengers no longer need to worry about losing their bus ticket or having the correct change.
All they have to do is buy an individual or a batch of tickets through the app and show their ticket on the mobile phone display screen to the driver.
Fiona Kerr, managing director of First Glasgow, said: "We want to make it as easy as possible for people to travel by bus. This is great news for our customers as it makes purchasing their tickets simpler than ever before. Whether a commuter buying a week's worth of tickets or someone catching the bus for a day out, travel will be smoother with our mTicket.
"With a bus ticket on their mobile, customers don't have to worry about keeping track of paper tickets and can book their journey with a few simple clicks. mTicketing, along with the continuing roll-out of wi-fi across our services, is just another example of First Glasgow responding to the needs of our customers."
mTicket is available on the App Store or Google Play and can be downloaded via the First Glasgow website.
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