E-tickets vs Paper Tickets
Mar 15, 2010 | 6:31 am
#1
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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?
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?
Mar 15, 2010 | 4:08 pm
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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.
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.
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?