How To Save $3 Billion A Year
Hold on to any paper airline tickets that you would have used, and you might just be holding on to a piece of history.
In a move started 4 years ago, the International Air Travel Association (IATA) will be switching completely to e-ticketing from June 2008.
Not only will this move save an estimated $3 billion a year, it will also help to save a bunch of trees in the bargain – five billion A-4 size sheets a year, worth. E-ticketing, also throws opens a range of possibilities such as self-service kiosks.
This however, does not come without it’s own set of problems – “There is no e-ticketing arrangement for interline (inter-airline) agreement and for journeys to more than 16 destinations globally. And the airlines are not ready to issue e-tickets for infants,” Ajay Prakash, national general secretary of the Travel Agents Federation of India told Mint. These no doubt, would get ironed out soon.
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