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Old September 18th, 2007, 02:23 AM posted to rec.travel.europe,rec.travel.air,rec.travel.asia
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Default IATA bids farewell to paper tickets

In article .com,
wrote:

I used to wonder why you drew constant attacks from so
many people on the net. Guess I know, don't I?


You don't know anything, and never did - just consider your ``legal
opinion'' that e-ticket is an oral promise, and that an e-ticket is
not a written contract.

Why dontcha take this legal opinion to IATA? They'll be delighted
to learn that (quote) ``an e-ticket is not a written contract.''
Tell them about California statute of frauds, while you are at it.

Sure, you're clearly a well-qualified legal expert.


I am not a legal expert, I just know more about e-tickets than a failed
lawyer who thinks that ``an e-ticket is an oral promise.''

As I said (though I understand you have trouble with content as well
as context), in 2000, when I made those comments, etickets were mad
eon the phone and no written confirmations were provided.


In 2000, e-tickets were bought online and booked by travel agents.
Even when they were booked by phone, airlines always provided e-mail,
fax and postal-mail confirmations. There was *never* a time when
e-tickets were not accompanied by written confirmations.

I've got a stack of written e-ticket receipts and confirmations going
back to at least 1997, if not earlier. All you've got is a diploma from
a fourth-rate law school noone has heard about, and the delusion that
it gives the force of law to any nonsense opinion you happen to hold.
You like a lance corporal who, when he barges into a pub, demands to
be addressed as ``Mr. Staff Sergeant-Major, Sir!''

Do take your legal opinions to IATA. Tell them that an e-ticket is
not a written contract, then let us know where they tell ya to stick it