Online Airline Ticket Booking

While ChinaHighlights is not as popular as Ctrip and eLong, it has been serving the online community with flight and hotel booking services for several years. Like Airline S In recent years, the appearance of confused passengers looking for an inconceivable ticket has become scarce at an airport. More and more passengers rely on eTickets or eTickets when flying. The same information is contained in an e-ticket as in a printed ticket. Its main distinction is that an e-ticket is stored in an airline's computer data base and not in the passenger's bag.

This is an electronically recorded passenger air booking that includes information such as date, place and date of departure, airports, seat allocation and trip category. E-Ticket travellers only need to present a passport with a photograph, such as a driving licence, at the gates to demand their place on the plane.

As soon as the airline has confirmed the traveller's information, it will issue a Boarding Card with which the traveller boards the aircraft. Conventional tour operators such as airline operators or tour operators can help travellers purchase e-tickets. Indeed, the traveller using this self-service may not even come into direct communication with the airline until he arrives at the destination and presents his identity card.

In order to be able to issue eTickets, an airline needs a data base that is fully embedded in an airline's customer services system. This is then linked with all other parties - e.g. airline companies, airport operators, groundhandling companies and tour operators - to exchange real-time information. In order to make a reservation for a specific trip, travellers can access any number of web-based ticket pages.

There they can see the available choices and purchase their ticket with a bank transfer or direct debiting payment method. Once the order has been placed, the ticket's digital recording is entered into the airline's data base, where it occupies the passenger's seat. eTickets have practically superseded conventional hard-copy ticketing at most major international airfields and carriers.

According to a recent poll by the IATA, a trading organisation that accounts for 94 per cent of global aviation, by December 2007 global airline companies would reach 92 per cent e-ticketetration. For the United States, the poll predicts 97 per cent of the population. By May 2008, the federation aims to have 100% e-ticketing in use at all airline companies around the world, although industry experts say that some companies will still issue a very small proportion of hard-copy fares.

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