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IATA bids farewell to paper tickets
http://uk.biz.yahoo.com/27082007/325...r-tickets.html
GENEVA (Reuters) - The global airlines body IATA said on Monday it had placed its last order for paper tickets, clearing the way for air travel to be based entirely on electronic ticketing from June 1 next year. "In just 278 more days, the paper ticket will become a collector's item," said Giovanni Bisignani, director general of the International Air Transport Association. The changeover from paper would not only cut airlines' costs by $9 for every traveller but would also mean the industry -- criticised by environmentalists for its part in global warming -- would save 50,000 mature trees a year, he added. Bisignani did not say whether the $9 in cost savings would or should be passed on to passengers. Based in Geneva, IATA represents more than 240 airlines which operate 94 percent of scheduled international flights. Non-IATA airlines, mainly low-cost carriers like the Irish Ryanair and the British Easyjet, already have a paper-free ticket system where travellers are registered in computers and present only an identity document at check-in. IATA launched its drive for so-called "e-ticketing" just over three years ago and now 84 percent of travellers on IATA carriers fly without paper tickets. The airlines body says China, one of the fastest-growing markets for air travel and host to next year's Olympic Games, is heading to be the first country in the world to operate an entirely paper-free ticketing system by the end of this year. |
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IATA bids farewell to paper tickets
Alain Quai schrieb:
http://uk.biz.yahoo.com/27082007/325...r-tickets.html GENEVA (Reuters) - The global airlines body IATA said on Monday it had placed its last order for paper tickets, clearing the way for air travel to be based entirely on electronic ticketing from June 1 next year. "In just 278 more days, the paper ticket will become a collector's item," said Giovanni Bisignani, director general of the International Air Transport Association. Does this mean the end of air travel for someone who doesn't have a credit card and a PC? T. |
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IATA bids farewell to paper tickets
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Tom Peel wrote: "In just 278 more days, the paper ticket will become a collector's item," said Giovanni Bisignani, director general of the International Air Transport Association. Does this mean the end of air travel for someone who doesn't have a credit card and a PC? Travel agent (to make bookings and print the bar code document) and driver's license or passport (for ID at the airport) are likely to be an acceptable alternative. |
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IATA bids farewell to paper tickets
"Tom Peel" wrote in message ... Alain Quai schrieb: http://uk.biz.yahoo.com/27082007/325...r-tickets.html GENEVA (Reuters) - The global airlines body IATA said on Monday it had placed its last order for paper tickets, clearing the way for air travel to be based entirely on electronic ticketing from June 1 next year. "In just 278 more days, the paper ticket will become a collector's item," said Giovanni Bisignani, director general of the International Air Transport Association. Does this mean the end of air travel for someone who doesn't have a credit card and a PC? T. No. It does not. The "E Ticket" that you print at home has nothing to do with getting on the plane. I never show my e ticket at check in. It DOES have some relevance for immigration occasionally if the officer asks you to prove you will be leaving his country. Then you show the ET as proof. While airlines are moving to having passengers print their boarding passes at home they are still providing means to obtain them at the airport. The credit card issue is more interesting. Given the move to self service at the airport I fear that some form of plastic will be required to check in at self service devices but that could be a credit/debit/ATB/frequent flyer card or machine readable document such as a passport. Some airlines do provide a keyboard to allow you to type date into their check in devices. And, as for buying the ticket, travel agencies are not quite dead yet. |
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IATA bids farewell to paper tickets
Graham Harrison wrote:
at home they are still providing means to obtain them at the airport. The credit card issue is more interesting. Given the move to self service at the airport I fear that some form of plastic will be required to check in at self service devices but that could be a credit/debit/ATB/frequent flyer card or machine readable document such as a passport. Some airlines do provide a keyboard to allow you to type date into their check in devices. And, as for buying the ticket, travel agencies are not quite dead yet. AA now lets you book online and pay via Western Union. I don't know if this applies over the phone. |
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IATA bids farewell to paper tickets
In message Tom Peel
wrote: Does this mean the end of air travel for someone who doesn't have a credit card and a PC? No, why would it? You can buy an e-ticket over the phone, and pay via Western Union on AA already (and quite possibly others, I've never tried. But then I have a credit card, printer, and whatever other goodies I need) People need to get over the concept that the piece of paper in their hand has some meaning. It doesn't. It hasn't for a long time now. -- You can get more with a kind word and a 2x4 than just a kind word. |
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IATA bids farewell to paper tickets
Tom Peel wrote:
Alain Quai schrieb: http://uk.biz.yahoo.com/27082007/325...r-tickets.html GENEVA (Reuters) - The global airlines body IATA said on Monday it had placed its last order for paper tickets, clearing the way for air travel to be based entirely on electronic ticketing from June 1 next year. "In just 278 more days, the paper ticket will become a collector's item," said Giovanni Bisignani, director general of the International Air Transport Association. Does this mean the end of air travel for someone who doesn't have a credit card and a PC? T. Why? You can book etickets by phone, at the airport, and through TA's. |
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IATA bids farewell to paper tickets
"Magda" wrote in message ... On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 20:56:56 +0200, in rec.travel.europe, Tom Peel arranged some electrons, so they looked like this: ... Alain Quai schrieb: [...] ... Does this mean the end of air travel for someone who doesn't have a ... credit card and a PC? [...] You'll need a printer, too. Might be wise, but not necessarily essential. I've travelled a few times with a passport containing a post-it note bearing an e-ticket booking reference copied from the PC screen. Martin. -- 11(F) Group Ops room - the Battle of Britain Bunker URL: http://www.sylvesternet.freeserve.co.uk/11gpops/ I do not intend to imply that any views expressed above represent the policy of any organisation, nor do I warrant any information to be accurate. |
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IATA bids farewell to paper tickets
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:41:25 +0100, "Martin Sylvester"
wrote: Might be wise, but not necessarily essential. I've travelled a few times with a passport containing a post-it note bearing an e-ticket booking reference copied from the PC screen. Martin. There have been a number of times when I've printed it out and then someone at the airport has ignored it and reprinted it. |
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IATA bids farewell to paper tickets
On Aug 27, 6:23 pm, Brian wrote:
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:41:25 +0100, "Martin Sylvester" wrote: Might be wise, but not necessarily essential. I've travelled a few times with a passport containing a post-it note bearing an e-ticket booking reference copied from the PC screen. Martin. There have been a number of times when I've printed it out and then someone at the airport has ignored it and reprinted it. I have been without a printer for some years and previously I would email my ticket to a friend to have it printed out for me. But for the last several years, I just go to the airport, swipe my credit card in the kiosk machine and it prints out my boarding pass. Never had to show anything like an e-ticket I had printed out to anyone. |
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