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Surf, pay 038; fly: E-tickets are here
Log on to the net. Check out a convenient flight schedule. Purchase your ticket, take a printout, board your flight. A few domestic aviation...
Log on to the net. Check out a convenient flight schedule. Purchase your ticket, take a printout, board your flight. A few domestic aviation companies in India have ushered in the age of E-ticketing, where you can do away with the old-fashioned flight ticket altogether.
Budget airline Air Deccan has had such a system in place over the past seven months. Jet Airways on Tuesday launched its online booking service with electronic ticketing. Passengers can, across the globe, now book their tickets for any destination in India, pay for it online and proceed to the airport with a simple confirmatory printout.
Jet Airways Chief Executive Officer Wolfgang Proch-Schauer at the facility8217;s official launch here today said E-tickets are the trend globally in airlines like British Airways, Cathay Pacific and United Airways. The company will make available this facility first through its booking offices and then later through its travel offices. The airline8217;s Senior General Manager Gaurang Shetty said that the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security had granted the requisite permission, where instead of a regular ticket an online printout of a ticket can be displayed to airport security during check-in.
He said Jet was liasing with airport authorities and the CISF. Presentations would be made on a regular basis to security staff in airports to familiarise them with E-tickets. The 8216;book-pay-print8217; theme also has a demonstration for the first time user and a 24/7 helpline desk will be set up. However, you cannot cancel your ticket online, only over the phone.
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