Amtrak Offering Tickets through Cell Phones

By Digital Trends Staff May 7, 2007

Amtrak today announced a new mobile site which will let riders purchase travel tickets through their phones. Amtrak.mobi can be accessed on most web-enabled mobile devices including cell phones and PDAs.

Amtrak.mobi is formatted for the smaller screen of mobile devices. It provides riders the ability to purchase tickets for upcoming trips as well as providing access to one’s booking profile and up-to-date train status information. This site, said Amtrak, complements Amtrak Mobile, a mobile web- accessing system it launched last summer. Both mobile offerings are available in both English and Spanish.

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Amtrak added amtrak.mobi is the first travel site in the United States to offer customers the ability to purchase a ticket using a mobile device.

"With the growth of our online ticket sales — which now total 42% of all sales — providing our passengers with convenient access to Amtrak.com is a priority," said Kathleen Gordon, Senior Director E-Commerce for Amtrak, in a statement. "Launching our Amtrak.mobi site ensures that we are able to reach the greatest number of passengers because our .mobi domain is accessible from practically any web- enabled phone and PDA."

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