It used to be that ticketing an OWE starting at a frugal point such as IST or CAI involved booking, arranging advance payment, and arranging ticket delivery or pickup. Usually only the booking step was trivial and the other two ranged from not-too-bad to painful.

Has electronic ticketing made it as simple as calling the local rtw desk to make the booking, emailing or faxing the issuing office with PNR and a c/c image, and waiting for the e-ticket to be emailed? Seems much too easy and makes low fares too easy (in the airlines' eyes) to obtain.