Is E-ticket okay for International travel?

I've found a pretty good rate for BA flights in October (SEA to AMS, MUC to
SEA)
but the rates are only good for E-tickets.
I feel aprehensive about this, but don't know if I am worrying needlessly.
What is the opinion of the group? Is it a good idea to fly BA
internationally with
E-tickets?
Thanks for your advice!

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"Javaman" wrote:

I've found a pretty good rate for BA flights in October (SEA to AMS, MUC to
SEA)
but the rates are only good for E-tickets.
I feel aprehensive about this, but don't know if I am worrying needlessly.
What is the opinion of the group? Is it a good idea to fly BA
internationally with
E-tickets?

It's fine. I flew SEA-VIE last year on e-tickets and had no problem
even though the base fare was $20 in their premium economy cabin and I
bought th tickets through Expedia.

Is it a good idea to fly BA internationally with E-tickets?

1) They work fine.

2) You don't have to worry about losing the ticket, which is a hassle to
keep secure anyways (they really fill up a moneybelt).

"Javaman" wrote in message
...
I've found a pretty good rate for BA flights in October (SEA to AMS, MUC
to
SEA)
but the rates are only good for E-tickets.
I feel aprehensive about this, but don't know if I am worrying needlessly.
What is the opinion of the group? Is it a good idea to fly BA
internationally with
E-tickets?

I fly BA UK-France about every six weeks. I haven't seen a paper ticket for
about a year and I've not had any problems yet.

Colin Bignell

On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 16:34:04 -0800, "Javaman"
wrote:

I've found a pretty good rate for BA flights in October (SEA to AMS, MUC to
SEA)
but the rates are only good for E-tickets.
I feel aprehensive about this, but don't know if I am worrying needlessly.
What is the opinion of the group? Is it a good idea to fly BA
internationally with
E-tickets?
Thanks for your advice!

What are you apprehensive about? BA wouldn't sell you this ticket if
it was not acceptable for travel on that route.

E-Ticket is just like a paper form ticket, but without the paper. your just
worring yourself, oh.... also forget the phrase its worht as much as the
paper its printed on. This is one time where it doesnt matter.

If you book it with a credit card, just remember to take this with you when
you check in.

--

Ray -
www.PaperPencils.co.uk
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"Javaman" wrote in message
...
I've found a pretty good rate for BA flights in October (SEA to AMS, MUC to
SEA)
but the rates are only good for E-tickets.
I feel aprehensive about this, but don't know if I am worrying needlessly.
What is the opinion of the group? Is it a good idea to fly BA
internationally with
E-tickets?
Thanks for your advice!

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"~~ Ray ~~" wrote:

E-Ticket is just like a paper form ticket, but without the paper. your just
worring yourself, oh.... also forget the phrase its worht as much as the
paper its printed on. This is one time where it doesnt matter.

While they are o.k. in general, there are occasional hiccups especially
if 1) computers are down (never experienced this) or 2) codeshare
partners don't get all the info or 3) codeshare partner agents are
improperly trained

E-Ticket is just like a paper form ticket, but without the paper....

Except that a paper ticket is a negotiable document, with monetary value.
It will cost you money if you lose it. You can have the ticket reissued
(for a charge; PLUS you have to buy a new ticket at the full current cost,
and then later hope to have the new ticket refunded, minus a fee). If an
airline finds that the value of a ticket you lost has been redeemed
somewhere, it can get even more complicated.

E-Tickets are LOTs better--unless your flight is cancelled and you want to
go over to the counter of another airlines and ask them if they will take
your ticket and just let you take their flight (since the ticket has
monetary value, they can cash it in--so they might say yes, and you can get
right on if it is from and to the same cities). With an E-ticket you can't
do that.

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"Douglas W. Hoyt" wrote:


E-Tickets are LOTs better--unless your flight is cancelled and you want to
go over to the counter of another airlines and ask them if they will take
your ticket and just let you take their flight (since the ticket has
monetary value, they can cash it in--so they might say yes, and you can get
right on if it is from and to the same cities). With an E-ticket you can't
do that.

Only if the ticket is endorsable. A lot of the cheaper fares are not.

Not the Karl Orff wrote:
right on if it is from and to the same cities). With an E-ticket you can't
do that.

Only if the ticket is endorsable. A lot of the cheaper fares are not.

There are instances where airlines will accept each other's higher fare
tickets "blindly" (for instance, shuttle style flights)

But in many other instances, you need to have the original ticket endorsed
before you can take it to the other airline, so you still need to see your
original airline before going to the other airline.

With an e-ticket, the difference (so far) is that in all cases, you needto see
the original airline to have your eticket endorsed and necessary paperwork
done to allow you to use it on another airline (this may involve printing a
paper ticket).

E-tickets are still relatively new but airlines will gradually expand the
reach of e-ticket functionality. The big question is whether the original
airline will give you some sort of voucher that you can take to any airline,
or whether you'll have to have the original airline book you on another airline.