Online Ticketing System
Electronic tickets are a means of ticket registration, processing and marketing for companies operating in railways, airlines and other entertainment, transport and transportation sectors.
What do you mean by online ticketing?
An online ticketing is an electronic, paper-free document used to issue tickets for passengers especially in the airline industry for commercial flights. The primary advantage of e-ticketing is it reduces the cost of booking as it does away with the need for sending and printing paper tickets. If paper tickets are offered, some carriers charge fees when they issue tickets in paper.
Once a reservation has been accepted, the company will keep the reservation record within the computer reservation centre. Customers can print their tickets or be given an electronic itinerary receipt that contains information about the recording location (also known as the reservation code), as well as the number of their e-ticket. There is the option of printing several copies of the e-ticket itinerary receipt.
Along with itinerary information the e-ticket receipt is also a record of:
- A valid ticket number (including the airline's 3-digit ticketing number, the formula number as well as a 6 digit serial number as well as occasionally the check digit)
- Conditions and terms of carriage (or at the very least an omission of them)
- Tax and fare information such as fare calculation information as well as other information like tour codes. The exact price may not be disclosed, however the "fare base" codes will indicate the type of fare being utilised.
- A brief summary of the restrictions on fare, typically stating only that the option of refund or change is allowed and not the fines to which they are liable.
- Payment method
- Office issuing
- Baggage allowance
Customers with electronic tickets must be checked in at the airport for their flight in the standard procedure, but they might be required to show an electronic ticket confirmation as well as private identification that includes a passport as well as a credit card. You can also utilise the record locator which is often referred to as booking reference, a string composed of six letters and digits. Printing out an electronic ticket itinerary receipt could be required in order to access the terminal of certain airports or to comply with immigration requirements in certain nations.The introduction of electronic tickets has provided a variety of improvements in check-in processes.
A variety of websites allow people with electronic tickets to make online check-in prior to the 24-hour limitation on flights. These websites store the passenger's flight information , and then when the airline opens to online check-in, the data is passed to the airline, and the boarding pass will be emailed back to the user. This technology allows e-tickets for the passenger who has his boarding pass via email and is travelling without check-in luggage; they can skip the conventional counter check-in.
E-ticket limitations
Another issue is that, when e-tickets first came out and implemented, the majority of airlines were still using the practice of bundling their products. When the industry started fully e-ticketing in the late 1990s, more and more airlines began to break up the previously-included items (like check-in baggage) and then add them into optional fees (ancillary revenues). But, the e-ticket standard was not designed to anticipate this, and did not provide the standard mechanism to handle these additional fees.The ticketing systems used by the majority of airlines can only generate e-tickets on itineraries that have less than 16 segments, which includes segments that are not surface. The same limitation applies to paper tickets. that applies to tickets made of paper.