The revamped website designed with a mobile-first approach emulating mobile apps, features enhanced navigation and functionalities to provide a user-friendly experience to guests accessing the platform.

Sectioned into three main areas including international, domestic and cargo, the new website also entails general information about the airline such as its history, current fleet, flight schedule, news stories and others.

Built with an accelerated mobile page tool to speed the uploading of pages and search features, the new interactive website simultaneously allows guests conducting any search on a particular page to have full access to the booking panel, available on every page.

Besides having the ability to share content from the website, to increase engagement, guests can also reload and view their last valid search.

The enhanced website is fully responsive and is able to adapt to various multimedia capabilities including videos, slide shows and interactive canvas. The new look and feel of the platform which took over 9 months to build, is being managed by the airline’s e-commerce team together with Maven, a local creative agency specialized in website design.

Charles Johnson, Chief Commercial Officer of Air Seychelles said: “The launch of our new website will enable Air Seychelles to enhance its online travel offering at all touch points.

“Regardless if guests book their travel via their laptop, phone or tablet, the new platform will continuously be updated with additional features to further simplify their travel experience.”

The new website which has been live for the past several weeks as part of its testing phase, replaces the previous platform which has been in existence for the past four years.

The new website and mobile application are user-friendly interfaces on which users can register and receive profiled and relevant travel information online at their own convenience.

“This is one of the many System enhancements that have been implemented on the Gautrain since the start of operations to ensure that the Gautrain is quick, convenient and efficient,” says Vadi.

“Passengers can now manage their Gautrain cards, trip planning and refund claims online. They will be able to register their cards, reload funds, buy Gautrain travel products passes, purchase bulk cards, view their card transaction history, check their card expiry dates and plan their real-time trips,” he adds.

Although passengers will still be able to buy their cards at any Gautrain Station, the new website and mobile application will allow passengers to create a profile where they will be able to manage their ticketing online by linking many cards to their online profile, check expiry dates and even block cards online.

Another news feature on the new Gautrain website and mobile application is the trip planning tool which assists passengers to plan their route. Passengers are able to locate their nearest Gautrain Station from their current location or type in the address they would like to use, to start planning their trip provided their GPS location services is switched on.

They would be able to locate the nearest bus, thereafter be able to see real-time train schedules of their origin and destination stations within their trip as well as the total cost of the trip.