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Reuters Article - CO to stop offering Paper Tickets altogether.
I just read a Reuters article stating that CO will eliminate paper tickets
altogether by year's end. Not that it matters much to me - I seem to have done well with the E-Ticket model. But what the article did say is that CO is terminating "Interline ticket and *baggage* agreements" with other airlines that don't have some form of E-Ticketing available. I guess I'm concerned as to which airlines' agreements have been terminated and hope one of them isn't SIA. I'll need them later this year. See Article: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...ntinental_dc_5 __________________________________ Regards, Arnold. (E-mail address altered, to prevent spamming. :-| Remove all asterisks and the *hates*spam* to get true address.) |
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Reuters Article - CO to stop offering Paper Tickets altogether.
mag3 wrote:
well with the E-Ticket model. But what the article did say is that CO is terminating "Interline ticket and *baggage* agreements" with other airlines that don't have some form of E-Ticketing available. ## Continental is an industry leader in interline eTicket technology and currently has 20 eTicket partners. Continental currently has more than 180 interline ticketing and baggage agreements with other airlines worldwide. ## It will be intersting to see what happens when someone books some Air-Tumbuktu paper ticket that connects to a Continental flight. (as opposed to a CO flight connecting to Air Tumbuktu). Wouldn't Continental be forced to accept an official IATA ticket issued by some travel agent in a far away land ? |
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Reuters Article - CO to stop offering Paper Tickets altogether.
On Wed, 07 Apr 2004 23:17:17 -0400, nobody wrote:
what the article did say is that CO is terminating "Interline ticket and *baggage* agreements" with other airlines that don't have some form of E-Ticketing available. There have been similar announcements of intent to terminate interline ticketing agrreements with airlines that didn't have interlineable e-ticketing by other airlines in the past. So far as I know, none has actually followed through on them -- they appear to have been threats to pressure other airlines, especially smaller and/or weaker ones, into e-ticketing. The bigger airlines are trying to replace interlining with code-sharing, and probably would like to get rid of interlining altogether (except in code-sharing cases). Interlining agreements expose the fraud in code-sharing and the lie in airlines' claims that codesharing "enables airlines to sell tickets and check baggage to more places". See my article on this at: http://hasbrouck.org/articles/alliances.html ## Continental is an industry leader in interline eTicket technology and currently has 20 eTicket partners. Continental currently has more than 180 interline ticketing and baggage agreements with other airlines worldwide. ## It will be intersting to see what happens when someone books some Air-Tumbuktu paper ticket that connects to a Continental flight. (as opposed to a CO flight connecting to Air Tumbuktu). Wouldn't Continental be forced to accept an official IATA ticket issued by some travel agent in a far away land ? The simple answer is, "No". Not every IATA airline has ticketing agreements with every other IATA airline. If CO doesn't have an agreement to accept tickets issued by ZZ (or issued by an agent ond validated on ZZ), then CO doesn't have to accept such a ticket. (Although they can at their discretion, and occasionally may.) Since airlines like ZZ have representation in lots of places where CO has no other representation, CO (or other major USA airlines) would lose a lot of business if they followed through on a threat to terminate their interline agreements with the vast majority of airlines that don't have interline e-ticketing. IATA has been working on e-ticket interlining standards, but it's been very difficult and slow. As of now, e-ticket interlining agreements are bilateral, not industry-wide or standards based. The cost, difficulty, and time it has taken IATA to come up with standards for interline e-ticketing are also significant as an indication of the cost, difficulty, and time that are likely be required to implement the new standards for additional PNR content, and its transmission between reservation systems, that will be required for CAPPS-II as currently envisioned. See: http://hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/000149.html ---------------- Edward Hasbrouck http://hasbrouck.org "The Practical Nomad: How to Travel Around the World" (3rd edition, February 2004, now in bookstores) "The Practical Nomad Guide to the Online Travel Marketplace" http://www.practicalnomad.com |
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