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hybridace101 Mar 15, 2010 6:31 am

E-tickets vs Paper Tickets
 
Hi! I'm pretty new to this forum and I just don't know where to place this topic.

I want to have an idea of how paper tickets worked prior to them being phased-out. I mean why where they necessary prior to the e-ticket when a computer network was used anyway to send passenger information from the travel agency/airline ticket office to the airline's central database? How different was it on the airline side, aside from handling more paper, of course?

Gamecock Mar 15, 2010 4:08 pm

Dunno.

But they haven't been totally phased out. I have paper tickets in hand for an AA TATL I am doing next month.

How/why did I get them?

I booked a DB rail codeshare from Mannheim.


Originally Posted by hybridace101 (Post 13578073)
I want to have an idea of how paper tickets worked prior to them being phased-out. I mean why where they necessary prior to the e-ticket when a computer network was used anyway to send passenger information from the travel agency/airline ticket office to the airline's central database? How different was it on the airline side, aside from handling more paper, of course?



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