Are all airline tickets e-tickets?

10/28/2015 7:37:10 AM

ALL? Surely not.
But you’d probably have to go to pretty remote places to get airlines that don’t have computerised systems for handling ticketing and billing at all. Think small operations in countries in the middle of Africa or parts of Asia or South America. Places where electricity is sporadic, internet even more so.
Or think of small bush operations in Canada or Alaska.
Walk up to the counter, get a hand written or typed ticket that’s also your boarding pass, while your information is entered into a paper ledger.

For major carriers on international routes though? They all use electronic systems. While they may issue paper slips still in some cases, I’ve not seen them in years. Even flying into and in the trans-Caucasian ‘Stans all the ticketing was electronic, even where boarding passes were hand written.

10/27/2015 3:58:13 PM

I’m living in Indonesia and I still get paper printed tickets when flying here after booking at a brick & mortar agency, however I am sure they are also registered in their systems so it depends on what you classify as e-ticket. But I personally do not get any electronic ticket.

That is for domestic flights, I have not booked any international flights at local agencies. But 2,5 years ago I did buy a ticket out of the country (though only a short flight to Kuala Lumpur) at an official airline office and also got a printed ticket. I don’t think I had to leave an e-mail address but my memory of that is a bit fuzzy and it’s a long time ago anyway so it might not be relevant anymore.

10/27/2015 4:02:58 PM

According to this article, approximately 30,000 paper tickets were issued in 2013 and redeemed on airlines. This represents less than 0.01% of airline tickets. 3000 were handwritten tickets. Many airlines no longer accept paper tickets for transport.

You will only get paper tickets on small regional carriers or in rare circumstances (such as a need for immediate travel but the airport ticket office has suffered a power or comms failure).

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