Sony Ericsson ties up with Yatra.com

Sony Ericsson together with Yatra.com has launched a new mobile application, Travel Buddy, which will allow Sony Ericsson to book tickets on the go.
Users will be able to book tickets and make payments instantly through a credit card via a secure connection. With this new application Yatra.com can sell domestic and international flight tickets to consumers using the Sony Ericsson Xperia family phones in India.
The built-in application provides essential travel information such as flight search, seat confirmation, itinerary review, passenger information, secure payment and booking confirmation. Also, as a regular user of the application, one can save a master passenger list of up to 20 people and even store the details of 5 cards that are used for payments on mobile.
Yatra.com would also offer a discount of Rs 100 on every booking made through the Travel Buddy as introductory offer.
Anurag Kontu, head, marketing, Sony Ericsson said, “While this application is currently available on the new batch of Sony Ericsson X10, we will also provide our current X10 users a link to download this application.”