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Be prepared to pay more
Continental has implemented a 20.00 fee for the issuance of paper tickets. All the rest will follow as they always do. Will they next charge to implement Rule 240? Rarely will one airline just accept an etkt from another. Longer lines during delays. Thank heavens the airlines are almost always delay free!
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All the TA has to do is press a key on her computer to "send" your ticket to the other airline. Unfortunately, yes you will have to join a new line once you reach the other ticket counter. But don't worry e-tickets are just as good as paper tickets, which will be all together gone within about 2 years.
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What worries me about electronic tickets is that there is no actual ticket. If a computer goes down - no reservation. If a carrier goes bankrupt, such as Vanguard recently, other airlines were giving deals to those scheduled on Vanguard flights with PAPER tickets. Without a paper ticket other airlines had no way to prove that passenger was scheduled for that flight. What about other airlines that are not part of the "Big Five"? Alaska, Frontier, Jet Blue, etc and international carriers? Without a paper ticket or an airline interline agreement you could not invoke rule 240 which is their for our protection. I, for one, am very concerned about this. Electronic tickets aren't the airlines answer to their bad business practices.
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I don't exactly understand the Glenda's concern with e-tickets - it's not just your word saying that you are indeed booked on a flight. I fly with e-tickets all the time and I do have proof of my paid-for-flight in the form of a receipt and itinerary. In a pinch, I also have my credit card record.
I also question the statement "without a paper ticket or an airline interline agreement you could not invoke rule 240". I do not believe that this statement is true.
I also question the statement "without a paper ticket or an airline interline agreement you could not invoke rule 240". I do not believe that this statement is true.
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You can always invoke Rule 240, but Rule 240 is not the same for every airline.
There are various inter-line agreements, some go under the name Rule 120.20. Regardless of what these are, your airline has to abide by its Rule 240 as far as you are concerned.
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There are various inter-line agreements, some go under the name Rule 120.20. Regardless of what these are, your airline has to abide by its Rule 240 as far as you are concerned.
Travel tips:
http://members.aol.com/ajaynejr/travel.htm
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I always am amused by people who like to fight technology and progress. Paper tickets are a thing of the past. When you purchase an e-ticket, whether it be on the web or at a TA or directly through an airline, you get a receipt.
Personally I think it is a bother to have to remember to pack the ticket or at the tumult at check in on the outbound, remember to put the return back in the same place etc. With an e-ticket you just go to the counter, tell the person your name, show id and you're done.
Technology is great but yet still people resist. In New York, we have some people who still think they would rather use tokens than metrocards. We have metrocard vending machines where there are rarely queues, yet you still people queing up for 10 minutes to buy a token. And you should hear the screaming whenever the MTA suggests they will do away with the token.
In a similar vein, the government loses millions each year by continuing to print $1 bank notes. Replace it with a coin, but a coin easy to distinguish on feel from a lower denomination, and the government saves millions. But listen to some of the people scream about this. Do it once and for all and within a week, nobody will care.
Same thing goes for direct deposit of social security or other payments. There are still people around who think it is important to have that piece of paper in their hand. Oh yeah, some will talk about what happens if something goes wrong. Well what is something goes wrong with the mail...or did you know that if you deposit a check into your account, it is only provisional until the check is cleared by the other bank. There have been times, just as often as when something goes wrong with a direct deposit, that checks get lost in clearing. And then it does become your problem.
Airlines should just do away with paper tickets period instead of just trying to disuade people from using them with fees.
Recently I flew with Easy Jet in Great Britain, a 100% e-ticket airline. They also have a policy that if the flight is more than 4 hours late, you get a refund. Sure enough, my flight from Gatwick to Amsterdam was delayed 5 hours. Did I get a refund even though I had no paper ticket...you bet your bippy I did....the credit was just posted to my cc.
Just don't understand why people have to be dragged screaming into the 21st century....
Personally I think it is a bother to have to remember to pack the ticket or at the tumult at check in on the outbound, remember to put the return back in the same place etc. With an e-ticket you just go to the counter, tell the person your name, show id and you're done.
Technology is great but yet still people resist. In New York, we have some people who still think they would rather use tokens than metrocards. We have metrocard vending machines where there are rarely queues, yet you still people queing up for 10 minutes to buy a token. And you should hear the screaming whenever the MTA suggests they will do away with the token.
In a similar vein, the government loses millions each year by continuing to print $1 bank notes. Replace it with a coin, but a coin easy to distinguish on feel from a lower denomination, and the government saves millions. But listen to some of the people scream about this. Do it once and for all and within a week, nobody will care.
Same thing goes for direct deposit of social security or other payments. There are still people around who think it is important to have that piece of paper in their hand. Oh yeah, some will talk about what happens if something goes wrong. Well what is something goes wrong with the mail...or did you know that if you deposit a check into your account, it is only provisional until the check is cleared by the other bank. There have been times, just as often as when something goes wrong with a direct deposit, that checks get lost in clearing. And then it does become your problem.
Airlines should just do away with paper tickets period instead of just trying to disuade people from using them with fees.
Recently I flew with Easy Jet in Great Britain, a 100% e-ticket airline. They also have a policy that if the flight is more than 4 hours late, you get a refund. Sure enough, my flight from Gatwick to Amsterdam was delayed 5 hours. Did I get a refund even though I had no paper ticket...you bet your bippy I did....the credit was just posted to my cc.
Just don't understand why people have to be dragged screaming into the 21st century....
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