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Old Apr 11, 2007 | 11:17 pm
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Originally Posted by QF009
So do I take it that places which are currently non-eticketable like CMB are going to be e-ticketable soon? ...I hope paper tix issued this year are still valid for use next year...
IATA has defined a procedure for airports without online access to use for processing e-tickets. It is pretty complicated, but the gist is that they print off a pax list ahead of time and check in from a piece of paper. Imagine the chaos that this will entail. And all the sources of error.
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