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IATA bids farewell to paper tickets
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IATA bids farewell to paper tickets
Henry wrote:
GENEVA (Reuters) - The global airlines body IATA said on Monday it had placed its last order for paper tickets... ...said Giovanni Bisignani, director general of the International Air Transport Association. The changeover ... would save 50,000 mature trees a year, he added. I'll just note in passing that this 'save the trees' argument is completely specious. With a well-managed forest products industry, two trees are planted for every one harvested (or some such ratio Didn't someone tell Butterfly about this? |
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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
Craig Welch wrote:
auzerais wrote: 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. Exactly. So much for 'positive identification', eh? You don't even need a magnetic card for some airline kiosks in the US. You often can get by with entering a frequent flyer number or confirmation number. Some airlines don't even need that much, as long as you can identify your flight info and your name. There is, of course, an ID vs BP pass check (in the US) before you go through security, but there is no computer check to see whether the BP or the ID is legitimate. |
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IATA bids farewell to paper tickets
John L wrote:
My question was, if you have neither of these luxuries, can you still fly as of next year? Sure. You just can't do it through your home computer. To buy your ticket, you'll have to visit somewhere that sells tickets for cash, such as an airline ticket office or travel agent. To check in, you can probably use an airline kiosk and key in the reservation number, or failing that, check in at the counter along with everyone else. Yes, in some cases you can. AA.com let's you buy tickets and pay through Western Union for a $14.95 fee. |
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IATA bids farewell to "mrtravel"...
mrtravel blabbled:
Henry wrote: GENEVA (Reuters) - The global airlines body IATA said on Monday it had placed its last order for paper tickets... ...said Giovanni Bisignani, director general of the International Air Transport Association. The changeover ... would save 50,000 mature trees a year, he added. I'll just note in passing that this 'save the trees' argument is completely specious. With a well-managed forest products industry, two trees are planted for every one harvested (or some such ratio Didn't someone tell Butterfly about this? Bugger off, puke... -- Best Greg |
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IATA bids farewell to paper tickets
"William Black" wrote in message ... "Doesn't Frequently Mop" wrote in message ... Make credence recognised that on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:30:54 GMT, "William Black" has scripted: These days, with difficulty, if you want to cross an international border anyway. If you want something that'll fool an employer into thinking you're a real immigrant with real papers all you need is something that looks right, or just a visa stamp that's a fake in a passport that's real, as Jean Charles de Menezes had. Bad example that one. It would've save his life if it was picked up on! A really good example. If he'd had legal papers and wasn't an illegal 'overstayer' he might have shown up on the records and not got shot dead. I was not under the impression that the police stopped him, checked his documents and then shot him. I know he was under surveillance but would his immigration status have really mattered under the circumstances? Cheers, George W Russell Bangalore |
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IATA bids farewell to paper tickets
"grusl" wrote in message ... "William Black" wrote in message ... "Doesn't Frequently Mop" wrote in message ... Make credence recognised that on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:30:54 GMT, "William Black" has scripted: These days, with difficulty, if you want to cross an international border anyway. If you want something that'll fool an employer into thinking you're a real immigrant with real papers all you need is something that looks right, or just a visa stamp that's a fake in a passport that's real, as Jean Charles de Menezes had. Bad example that one. It would've save his life if it was picked up on! A really good example. If he'd had legal papers and wasn't an illegal 'overstayer' he might have shown up on the records and not got shot dead. I was not under the impression that the police stopped him, checked his documents and then shot him. I know he was under surveillance but would his immigration status have really mattered under the circumstances? Yes. Because when they checked him out at the address he was staying at he wasn't there, and didn't seem to exist. He was 'an invisible man' and as such was assumed to be up to no good. The 'no good' he was up to was being an illegal overstayer, but the cops assumed he was a terrorist because there was no way to tell the difference quickly without getting hold of him and asking him, and doing that to someone with a body-belt stuffed with 40 Kg of unstable home-made explosives who intends blowing themselves up stretches the 'duty of care' requirements for the police service somewhat. -- William Black I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach Time for tea. |
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IATA bids farewell to paper tickets
"Tom Peel" wrote in message ... Martin Sylvester schrieb: [...] [Having a printer] 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. [...] So do I. In fact, I just checkin at the Etix machine with my CC and never bother printing out the booking confirmation. However, I do have a PC and internet connection to make the booking, and I do have a credit card which lets me pay for the Etix and identify myself at the machine. My question was, if you have neither of these luxuries, can you still fly as of next year? Yes. If I'd gone to the Co-op and paid cash, and the travel agent had copied the number onto a post-it for me, the effect would've been the same. I expect that in practice, a TA will print out for their customer something bearing the booking reference, and a traveller unused to e-tickets will think of that printed output as their ticket. Martin. -- Can you spare three minutes for Daria? - http://tinyurl.com/48ltd The campaign to get every episode of Daria released on DVD. 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 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:22:13 GMT, "William Black"
wrote: "Craig Welch" wrote in message ... Magda wrote: You'll need a printer, too. Not necessarily. I travel reasonably often without a printed copy of anything that's ticket related. Don't try it in India. You can't get into the airport building without something printed... Same thing in Manila. I turned up a couple of weeks ago, having forgotten to print out my e-ticket in advance and no way was the security guard going to let me into the departures area without seeing a flight itinerary. Fortunately I had the email containing the e-ticket on the laptop I was carrying, and after scrambling around looking for a power outlet, was finally able to start up the machine and show him the email. That was fine with the guard and he let me through. The stupid part about it was that the email actually proved nothing at all. The email was in plain text, and I could have very easily changed the date or flight number on the e-ticket and printed it out to get access to the airport building when I wasn't even booked on a flight at all if I had wanted to. Chris |
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