'Sastaticket' making travel and bookings stress free.

Byline: ALI HAIDER

Profile

Mohib Hassan is the COO at Sastaticket.pk, and in his current role, Mohib is responsible for establishing Sastaticket.pk as the leading online travel website in Pakistan. Previously, Mohib has held various positions such as Executive Director at Pizza Hut, and Co-Founder at several international startups, amongst other roles where he has often been responsible for leading the company's strategic direction, financial revival, technical innovations, and a renewed focus on stellar customer experiences.

Mohib has extensive experience creating new products, solving customer pain points, and operating businesses of various sizes in multiple industries ranging from insurance to food to the travel industry. He is a mathematics and actuarial science graduate from the University of Edinburgh and Boston University.

Following are the edited excerpts of a recent conversation Pakistan and Gulf Economist had with him:

PAGE: What inspired you (ST) to initiate a travel booking platform in Pakistan?

Mohib Hassan: The founders have been stalwarts of the travel industry for 3 decades and were inspired by a vision of a different future for Pakistanis where travel booking was as easy as a few taps on the screen. You must remember that in 2016 when the brothers, Bilal and Shazil founded the company the travel e-commerce landscape was pretty barren.

PAGE: Which is the most used mode of leisure transport in Pakistan as per your platform's booking stats? Airline or buses?

Mohib Hassan: Our customers are Pakistanis from all walks of life who not only use airline tickets, which form the bulk of our business, but increasingly bus tickets as well.

PAGE: Explain about new Bus vendors ST just took on board?

Mobib Hassan: Recently we have added almost a dozen new vendors for our customers to book bus tickets on. These include Sadabahar, Balochistan's largest bus company along with a host of other providers like Faisal Movers and Bilal Travels to name a few. These collaborations have, for the first time in Pakistan's history, brought routes to/from Balochistan and routes within Sindh, to the online ticketing space. We are truly excited to be working alongside our partners in such a historic collaboration which promises to change the bus experience for travellers in Pakistan.

PAGE: Where are the most famous foreign destinations for which travelers book tickets?

Mohib Hassan: Most Pakistanis love traveling to the Middle Eastern countries of UAE...