Do airlines still use paper tickets?

K 31 May 2008, the International Air Transport Association (IATA), which represents 230 airlines around the world, and 93% of the planned international air traffic, no longer issued paper tickets. The primary motivation for paper scrapping tickets was to reduce costs and increase efficiency. Although not every airline around the world is subject to IATU rules, the vast majority are and paper tickets are now practically outdated.

The aerospace industry estimates that it will reduce costs by $ three billion worldwide by eliminating paper tickets. This is because ticket printing paper had to physically deliver and the device used for printing had to be maintained. The cost of issuing a ticket will be reduced from $ 10 to one and 50,000 trees will be saved according to the industry. Some small regional airlines, drought as Aerocondor in Peru and Kingfisher Air in India went without paper in frontIka international destinations across carriers.

The elimination of paper tickets makes it difficult for airlines that serve a remote place where computers or electricity are not. In these cases, the airline will have to print lists of passengers at its headquarters and transfer them to a distant airport and rely on radio and telephone connection to verify changes in lists.

Just because IATA no longer releases paper tickets no longer means that people do not use them. According to the IATA rules, paper ticket holders have up to one year from the date of issue to use their ticket, and another year to perform a return journey. This means that some paper tickets will be valid until May 31, 2010.

It is important to remember that the airline airline is not the same as the boarding ticket. Airline ownership, electronic or paper is what the airline allows the airline to release the on -board VSTupinka, which is a paper document. The plan on board is then used to advance security, payment of any immigration or airport obligations or fees and securing the headquarters on the plane.