ComfortDelGro to launch taxi booking service with Ryde

The app has around 100,000 members.

After Ryde was given the go-ahead to be a third-party taxi booking service provider by the Land Transport Authority, it partnered with ComfortDelGro to launch a taxi booking service.

Launched in 2014, Ryde was the world's first real-time carpooling app home-grown in Singapore. It has around 100,000 members.

With its partnership with ComfortDelGro, Ryde users will be given another option aside from carpooling.

In order to ensure the most competitive fares, RYDE enables users to book both flat fare and metered taxi trips. The flat fare option computes a fixed fare taking into account distance travelled and existing surcharges, providing certainty of fares. All taxi bookings made from the Ryde app will be routed directly to ComfortDelGro Taxi.  

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