It seems hard to believe there are still companies that don’t allow the option of e-tickets on your iPhone, but until today, intercity bus company Greyhound was one of them …
Previously you had to show a sliver of crushed tree to the driver when boarding, but you can now simply display an e-ticket in the iPhone app instead.
When buying your ticket, you simply select the e-ticket option. You’ll then get an alert in the app two hours before boarding, prompting you to check-in. Tick the passengers in the booking, tap the ‘Complete check-in’ button and your e-ticket will be displayed. You then simply show that to the driver on boarding.
The future of bus travel is here! We’re making bus travel faster and easier than ever before by offering E-Tickets. Now when you buy your bus ticket on greyhound.com from your desktop or your smartphone, you can choose to have a paperless E-Ticket delivered right to your smartphone – no waiting in lines, no waiting for an email ticket. Spend less time at the bus station and more time enjoying your trip!
Greyhound says that you can also convert existing Will Call ticket to an e-ticket.
- Open your booking confirmation email and tap the Get Your E-Ticket button
- Go to www.greyhound.com/retrievebooking and enter your confirmation number and last name. Once your trip confirmation opens simply tap the Get Your E-Ticket button
- Road Rewards members can convert to E-Ticket by going to My Trips located in the Manage My Trips menu option on www.greyhound.com, tap Trip Details and click Get Your E-Ticket
The Greyhound app is a free download from the App Store. Android users will apparently have to wait a while.
