Airline ticket
Ticket, also called ticket, air transport as transport document (see ticket ) will be issued and used via the document function also for control purposes if the ticketed airline passenger a valid claim to the specified therein transportation ( air travel, round trip ) in an aircraft in commercial aviation has. Upon receipt of the entry into the booked flight standing by airplane boarding pass entitling the ticket loses its relevance as evidence of entitlement to transportation.
Tickets will be issued by different institutions: either from a travel agent ( often on behalf of the International Air Transport Association - IATA) or directly from the airline concerned. Not all tickets must be paid, eg there are free flights for employee 's own airline award tickets due to accumulated miles out of frequent flyer programs.
- 3.1 Electronic ticket ( Etix )
- 3.2 confirmation as ticket replacement
General
A flight ticket consists of one or more flight coupons, as well as several documents: the Audit coupon, which the airline receives for their accounts, the agent coupon, to the issuing office reserves, and the passenger receipt, which will be issued to the traveler along with the flight coupons and is intended to remain with the passenger.
Each flight coupon will be issued for exactly one route ( flight segment). For example, a ticket for flights from Munich to Honolulu with the routes Munich - Frankfurt, Frankfurt - Los Angeles, Los Angeles - Honolulu are thus three tickets ( flight segments).
Tickets are generally available only prior to the start and not during a flight. A ticket is the check-in counter for a boarding card ( boarding pass, boarding card ) exchanged. The withheld ticket is sent to the billing to the airline.
In the course of technological development since the 1990s (electronic data processing, Internet) is a ticket as papierne certificate to prove an entitlement to transportation today, at least in most European airlines is not necessary since there are several alternative ways to provide evidence of entitlement to transportation.
Paper ticket
Types of paper tickets
There are various types of paper tickets:
- Manually filled Tickets
- TAT tickets ( created with a regular printer tickets )
- ATB Tickets ( with magnetic strip )
- Charter tickets
The first three types of ticket are IATA authorized documents.
Nowadays manual tickets or tickets created with dot matrix printers are as good as no longer available. Only in emergencies ( in case of system failure, etc.), they are still created by ticket offices of the Airlines.
IATA tickets
The exhibition of IATA tickets is regulated by IATA exactly. Virtually all scheduled flights are carried out according to IATA regulations and IATA tickets. Therefore, these tickets are also called line airline tickets.
This ticket contains for each leg of the journey its own flight coupon with, inter alia, the following data:
- The title, first and last name of the passenger
- The flight path
- The booked calendar date
- The booking class
- Information on airfare and taxes on air ( air traffic control charges, airport taxes, government taxes and fees)
- The date of issue
- The issuing authority (eg IATA agency )
- The number of the ticket
- The validity
- Endorsement Information: if this ticket may be changed after the issue (path, date, etc. )
- Fields for number of checked baggage and their weight
The first three digits of a ticket number show for which airline this ticket was issued. This 3-digit number is assigned by IATA and IATA called prefix.
ATB Tickets
IATA has decided on 24 May 2006, are that from 1 January 2008 issued and paid no worldwide standard paper transport documents more. Except for paper tickets with machine-readable magnetic stripe ( ATB Tickets - Automated Ticket and Boarding Pass), in which both booking as well as can be stored in information policy.
Charter tickets
Charter tickets issued by travel agents, such as TUI or allroute and are usually part of a whole package of rights certificates, which may also contain Rail & Fly / train to flight tickets, hotel reservation, a transfer from the airport to the hotel or, for example car hire reservations. These tickets are not subject to IATA regulations. They therefore contain significantly less information, mostly only:
- Name of passenger
- Flight number
- Flight date and time
- Route
- Name of the tour operator
Unlike IATA tickets they are usually not possible, because they make up part of a package.
Dispensability of a paper ticket
In the course of technological development since the 1990s (electronic data processing, Internet) is a ticket as papierne certificate for proof of entitlement to transportation today, at least in most European airlines dispensable, since this proof from the passenger by the mention of a license issued to him personal booking number ( booking code ) can be done in combination with the presentation of their identity card or passport or its used for the booking credit card. Due to the electronic storage of PNR many airlines even extends from the presentation of their identity card or passport or his credit card used for the booking to get the entitlement to transportation in the central computer of the airline. In many places, the passenger can even perform this test on a switch point of the airline to get to the boarding the aircraft qualifying boarding card ( boarding pass ). Recently, the passenger can even perform this operation on a home PC online and print out their boarding passes at home.
Occasion and reason for the first time introduced in late 2004 in the charter flight envelope method of ticketless purchase of the boarding pass was particularly the cost savings due to the lower process cost for the travel agency and ground crew. To reduce in this area, the generally high personnel costs or save entirely, many airlines allow passengers discounts as an incentive to use the ticketless procedure. The process is still - designed differently - depending on the charter or scheduled airline. The share of e- tickets with bookings, with 16% by 2007, with 84 %, up from June 2004.
Electronic ticket ( Etix )
In line flight area, the boarding pass is printed at the check- in desk. In some cases it can also be checked at a check - in kiosk. Therefore the client needs a debit, credit card or frequent flyer card of the airline or any other member airlines with airline alliances. Some airlines also employ check -in machines, can read the identity cards or passports with a machine- readable zone.
This card is inserted into the check- in kiosk and can here his own reserve seats, and the luggage checked out already and receives a boarding pass. Partly it's enough his extant at time of booking reservation code and enter a first and last name. Luggage will be delivered only to a separate switch.
The boarding pass can usually be sent to a smartphone in the form of a 2D barcode via email or MMS ( for example, Deutsche Lufthansa AG since 2009, Air Berlin / Niki ). In particular, intra- German flights are usually possible without a paper-based boarding pass.
Pioneer when flying without a paper ticket was United Airlines, which in 1994 offered electronic billets for the first time. " Etix " means the electronic ticket method of Deutsche Lufthansa AG and is protected by trademark law of this. For other airlines, the process for example AB- TIX (Air Berlin / Niki ) or simply " Electronic Ticket " means.
Confirmation as a ticket replacement
In particular, the charter sector and in many low cost airlines usually the booking confirmation a valid ticket. In addition, this reservation code Filekey and operation number are listed. Upon presentation of identity card or passport and the booking confirmation check -in counter is checked on.