Printing Receipts for E-tickets
Sep 16, 2011, 2:08 am
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Printing Receipts for E-tickets
Is there a more elegant solution thatn to pring of the 5+ pages of e-ticket receipt emailed to you? I remember you used to be able to get a nice, neat receipt printed at the airport on the same card stock that boarding passes were printed (at least on AA).
Any suggestions would be happily received.
Any suggestions would be happily received.
Sep 16, 2011, 2:20 am
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I don't usually bring an e-ticket reciept with me. Check-in happens via passport and Exec Club card. If needed, the e-ticket is with me in email form on my blackberry.
The only exception, when I would carry a printout, might be long haul travel to certain countries where it's necessary to prove intention to leave again. In this case the relevant bit of the e-ticket email (usually the first page) is all I carry, not the pages and pages of Ts&Cs and advertisements.
The only exception, when I would carry a printout, might be long haul travel to certain countries where it's necessary to prove intention to leave again. In this case the relevant bit of the e-ticket email (usually the first page) is all I carry, not the pages and pages of Ts&Cs and advertisements.
Sep 16, 2011, 2:39 am
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Sep 16, 2011, 3:15 am
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There is a much cleaner version in MMB than the email they send to you and it prints quite nicely on 1 or 2 pages.
Click "Print/View Itinerary" under Administration.
It is very useful as it gives information about which check in desks to use and also directions to the lounge if you are travelling through a new airport ^
Click "Print/View Itinerary" under Administration.
It is very useful as it gives information about which check in desks to use and also directions to the lounge if you are travelling through a new airport ^
Sep 16, 2011, 3:36 am
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I thought the option to print from the SSCI had been removed? I seem to remember someone (SRG?) saying that it's because so many people printed them then realised they didn't have a clue what to do with them.
Sep 16, 2011, 3:47 am
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I don't usually bring an e-ticket reciept with me. Check-in happens via passport and Exec Club card. If needed, the e-ticket is with me in email form on my blackberry.
The only exception, when I would carry a printout, might be long haul travel to certain countries where it's necessary to prove intention to leave again. In this case the relevant bit of the e-ticket email (usually the first page) is all I carry, not the pages and pages of Ts&Cs and advertisements.
The only exception, when I would carry a printout, might be long haul travel to certain countries where it's necessary to prove intention to leave again. In this case the relevant bit of the e-ticket email (usually the first page) is all I carry, not the pages and pages of Ts&Cs and advertisements.
Sep 16, 2011, 3:49 am
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Correct. The SSCI machines no longer allow you to print the receipt. You have to ask at a CI desk, the ticket desk, on at the desk in the lounge.
Sep 16, 2011, 4:13 am
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There is a much cleaner version in MMB than the email they send to you and it prints quite nicely on 1 or 2 pages.
Click "Print/View Itinerary" under Administration.
It is very useful as it gives information about which check in desks to use and also directions to the lounge if you are travelling through a new airport ^
Click "Print/View Itinerary" under Administration.
It is very useful as it gives information about which check in desks to use and also directions to the lounge if you are travelling through a new airport ^
Why on earth would BA have chosed to disable this functionality if it was in place already?
Sep 16, 2011, 5:16 am
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Sep 16, 2011, 5:24 am
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Will add it to the pile of things that worked and were "enhanced" away.
Sep 16, 2011, 5:40 am
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This is a pretty simple thing to get right or to offer a summary single A4 receipt view in MMB. Other airlines handle this much better.
Sep 16, 2011, 5:46 am
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Depending on how you procure your tickets, Web front ends such as virtuallythere.com may be more helpful. Or maybe your Amex statement seems to hold the key facts (and can be expanded in the online version).
Sep 16, 2011, 5:56 am
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However, this is only an itinerary, not an e-ticket receipt; it doesn't have ticket information on it.Just guessing, but perhaps 99% of pax don't want one, the extra step of asking whether you want one confuses and clutters the SSCI process, and anyone who does want one can just stop at a desk and ask?
Clicking the second will give you an e-ticket receipt complete with payment information and a full breakdown of taxes and fees, but only after you have keyed in the card number used for payment. It still has all the extra stuff and prints to a few pages though so of no help to Londonflyer!