e-ticketing

"Industrywide e-ticketing alone will save us $3 billion in costs each year," he said.

E-ticketing for interline travel is now supported by several carriers.

In 2011, the Gilibookings website made provision for online e-ticketing.

E-ticketing is meeting resistance, however, from business travelers.

Continental has been optimistic about completing arrangements for interline domestic e-ticketing by the end of the year.

As all this occurs, analysts foresee great improvements in standardizing e-ticketing among airlines.

With E-Ticketing, customers are able to buy tickets online using debit and credit cards.

Venue personnel can search for artists, make offers and view incoming applications, and have the choice of using built in e-ticketing.

In May 2006, Air Moldova implemented e-ticketing on all its flights.

Continental has interline e-ticketing with Northwest and America West.

E-ticketing was available.

Awkward Period Despite its growth spurt, e-ticketing is still in its awkward adolescence.

With its much-improved efficiency, e-ticketing also could make some jobs, such as those at travel agencies and airline reservations desks, obsolete, adding to unemployment.

E-ticketing has enabled major airlines to provide online check-in facilities, reducing the need to queue up at check-in counters.

However, Biman has not made any attempts to improve customer service through the adoption of e-ticketing, although it has been able to reduce its own costs.

Such interactive kiosks can include self-checkout lanes, e-ticketing, information and wayfinding, and vending.

Such interline e-ticketing bridges computer reservation systems, allowing access to electronically stored itineraries so one airline can honor another's e-ticket.

Airblue was the first airline in Pakistan to introduce e-ticketing, wireless check-in and self check-in kiosk facilities.

Interline e-ticketing links reservation systems, allowing airlines access to one another's electronic ticket databases so one can honor another's e-ticket.

For Air France's VP Marketing, electronic boarding passes are 'the industry's next major technological innovation after e-ticketing'.

Continental Airlines says it now has seamless e-ticketing for all of its worldwide SkyTeam alliance partners as well as other code-share partners.

E-ticketing has largely replaced the older multi-layered paper ticketing systems, and since 1 June 2008, it has been mandatory for IATA members.

In October 2007 TransNusa established the first implementation of an airline e-ticketing in East Nusa Tenggara.

The Downeaster was the first Amtrak train to offer free Wi-Fi service to passengers, as well as the first to offer E-ticketing.

The association's goal is to have 100 percent e-ticketing used by all air carriers worldwide by May 2008, though analysts say some airlines will continue issuing a very small percentage of paper tickets.