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Paper Airline Tickets to Disappear by 2007

An AFP newswire article, via PhysOrg.com, reports that:

Nearly one out of two airline tickets issued to travellers is currently in electronic form and paper tickets are on track to disappear completely by 2007, International Air Transport Association (IATA) said Monday.

The association, which represents 265 airlines accounting for 94 percent of international air traffic, indicated that it would begin penalising members that failed to introduce electronic tickets by the end of next year.

The organisation said that nearly 50 percent of tickets were electronic now, but that it was aiming for 70 percent by the end of this year and 100 percent by the end of 2007.

posted by Fergie @ 6/05/2006 11:30:00 AM