Most loyal customer and longest trip: e-hailing app Bolt crunches 2021 data

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The convenience of being 'chauffeur driven' is loved by this South African: A Bolt passenger hailed 908 rides on the app during 2021 – equating to nearly two-and-a-half rides per day on every day of the year.

South Africans have set interesting records in how they travel around the country, data from Bolt shows. Stock photo.The convenience of being “chauffeur driven” is loved by this South African: A Bolt passenger hailed 908 rides on the app during 2021, equating to nearly two-and-a-half rides per day on very day of the year.

The longest Bolt trip in 2021 was a ride from Johannesburg in Gauteng to Ermelo in Mpumalanga — a distance of 262km — and this was also the most costly trip in 2021 on the platform at R1,318. However, South Africans are more miserly than many others on the continent when it come to tips. The largest tip given to a driver in SA in 2021 was R184. The year’s biggest tipper was a passenger in Kenya who tipped the equivalent of R3,350.The platform saw a record-breaking 270,000 trips in Johannesburg on December 3.

 

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