Chinese taxi service announces 10 percent discounts for students, journalist

The company has offered discounts for people, who travel to education institution, health center.

(Web Desk) – Chinese taxi service “Buraq” in Pakistan has offered the 10 percent discount for students, teachers, doctors, senior citizens, security personnel, lawyers and journalists.

The company has also offered discounts for people, who are traveling to education institution and health centers including schools and universes, hospitals and also to the marriage halls, Chief Executive Officer of the company Donald Li told APP on Sunday.

All private companies, organisations and government departments can also get 10 percent discount for their employees through using Timesaco Group feature, Donald said.

Eyeing on the potential transport market, a Chinese company is all set to compete with two such services already operating in the market.

Timesaco, the company launching the Buraq Taxi Service, has devised a comprehensive strategy to attract customers towards its newly established service for making it competitive, since two taxi services namely Careem and Uber are already operating in the market.

Chinese company Timesaco intends to provide a rapid services platform to citizens by launching five special services including a taxi service, heavy cargo delivery, orders delivery, moving automated teller machines (ATM) and vehicle advertisement facilities, Timesaco Chief Operating Officer Donald Li had said in July.

Initially these instant services would be launched in the six major cities including Karachi, Lahore, Faisalabad, Islamabad, Rawalpindi and Peshawar and would be extended to other urban centers as well, he had maintained.

Talking to APP, Li had said that initially the taxi service would be offered at 10 percent discount rates for ride to education institution, health centers and marriage halls.

He had said that for Timesaco services, customers could download application from Google Play Store for instant services in all five major areas.

He had said that people interested to work with Timesaco taxi services could register their vehicles with the company without any precondition.

Buraq drivers will get 97% share of their earring and company will get only 2% from drivers while one percent would be invested in Drivers’ Club for providing health and education services to families of drivers.

He had said people could register their bikes, cars, rickshaws, pickups, qingqi loaders, and trucks with the company and get multiple ways for earning.

Talking about an elaborated programme of his company, he had said that a comprehensive business plan had been worked out to provide five important services to citizens of Pakistan in six big cities, initially investing $20 million, with future prospects of $600 million.

He had said that modern technology and innovative methods of E-commerce would be utilised in delivering these services.