No more paper tickets on foreign routes from today

Mumbai/New Delhi: You might not see paper tickets when you travel internationally but on the domestic routes, the paper ticket will continue to play its role in facilitating travel for the next couple of years.
While airlines in India have braced themselves up for global implementation of 100 per cent e-ticketing by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) effective June 1, 2008, the travel industry says India will take years before it goes entirely paper less on the domestic routes.
There is work in progress on this front, though. The IAAI (IATA Agents Association Of India) will shortly make a presentation to the civil aviation ministry on how the government could facilitate e-ticketing domestically.
E-ticketing will help reduce workload, increase efficiency and quality for airlines.
It is estimated that an airline spends Rs 300-400 in processing each paper-ticket. Currently, about 15 per cent of all the tickets issued in India are paper tickets.
On the international front, airlines have put all infrastructure in place to support IATA's global implementation of 100 per cent e-ticketing.
Air India and Jet Airways have already signed interline agreements for e-ticketing with international airlines.
01/06/08 Kalpana Pathak & Siddharth Zarabi/Business Standard

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Categories: Foreign Jun 2008, Indian Aviation- In General Jun 2008