Mumbai: Air fares may be burning a hole in your pocket, but airline Companies are nonetheless trying hard to cut down their operating costs. Come June 1 and all airlines in India will introduce electronic tickets (e-tickets) after IATA's (International Air Transport Association) enforcement to do away with paper tickets. Industry experts say that airlines will save on stationary cost by converting the four-coupon paper ticket into a 100% e-ticket. Of the 7-8 million international tickets, which are issued from India, close to 1.5 million are paper tickets. But in domestic travel, about 95% of tickets issued are e-tickets and 5% are paper.
All low-cost airlines in India are e-ticket-enabled. Jet Airways and Kingfisher are e-ticket enabled. "In case of an interline arrangement with international carriers for foreign travel, Indian carriers issue a four-coupon paper ticket if the partner airline is not e-ticket-enabled," said CV Prasad, president, Travel Agents Association of India, adding that Air India still has 5% paper tickets on its network. Says Jitendra Bhargava, director (PR) Air India, "We will introduce 100% e-tickets from May 31. Our interline agreements between carriers have been made e-ticket-enabled." He adds that they have informed the travel agents associations about the transformation.
27/05/08 Shaheen Mansuri/Financial Express
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