Originally Posted by
boat9781
Just went to book a flight. Went to my reservations page, selected the reservation, and the tickets had been issued -- in under 30 seconds. Is this new?
30 seconds is not instant.
My experience, including recently, is that it seems to be a queue-based process with variable throughput time.
Sometimes, I've had it happen quickly (a few minutes) and other times it takes hours or even days.