What is an electronic ticket?

The purchase is very comfortable: official papers can be obtained remotely, without leaving your home and / or office via the Internet. Cash payment and non-cash payment method are used. This receipt is not afraid of the usual annoying failures with documents, when they are accidentally torn, crumpled, forgotten at the most inopportune moment and even lost. You can purchase an electronic train ticket, an electronic ferry ticket, an electronic plane ticket.

Consider the purchase of electronic documents on the plane.

 

Within 24 hours, the passenger becomes the owner of not the air ticket itself, but its prototype - a route receipt (the tourist receives it by his e-mail). The electronic storage medium stores all information about the flight and transmits information that the document was actually created.

Make as many copies of the receipt as necessary, you can print them everywhere: in the office, at home, even before departure in the air harbor.

On the day of departure, you need to come to the airport with an electronic ticket two hours before departure (when flying through the territory of Russia) and 3 hours before boarding on international flights. Take with you the original document specified when purchasing the ticket. If you are flying abroad - this document will be a confirmation of your departure in the opposite international direction.

Electronic tickets for air flights are records in the databases of aviation companies, documents that confirm the conclusion of a flight contract.

 

 

Route receipt

 

Document itinerary receipt (itinerary receipt) is needed in order to confirm the purchase of an electronic ticket, it contains the surname, name and patronymic of the tourist, his passport data; all personal information about the route and payment. A receipt is useful when entering a specially guarded airport building, it must be taken when you move to other countries and for passing passport control in air harbors. Please keep your itinerary receipt and boarding pass until the end of your journey.

 

When buying plane tickets, choose the necessary and suitable for you: you can choose direct destinations or flights with transfers. If you have a scheduled transfer, you will check the time of docking, the terminal of departure and arrival, the payment option, the number of your flight. Reservation of the document and transfer of funds for it occur simultaneously. Passenger accounts are always protected from criminals – your bank will ask you to confirm the transaction using a special 3D-secure process. After entering the card number, the bank in which the card is issued sends a digital code to the buyer's phone (the number in this bank is linked to this payment card). To conduct funds, the buyer must enter a code on the site and confirm the payment, its registration does not take much time, about fifteen minutes. During the day, a route receipt is necessarily sent to the email address of the buyer.

 

An electronic document for flying on an aircraft is an official document confirming your official registration of an air transportation contract. How do you use the ticket? Come to the airport and calmly check in.

To register, you will have to present an identity card, which was indicated in the order and a birth certificate (in the case of traveling with underage tourists).

 

 

On business trips, itinerary receipts and boarding passes will serve as confirmation that you really managed to use the electronic ticket. In the accounting of your company, it is necessary to clarify the rules for filling in and presenting to the reporting documentation.

 

Verification of electronic ticket

 

Some passengers are going to evaluate and check their air ticket reservations in advance. Airline ticket issuance usually takes place on several global booking systems. What do you need to pay special attention to?

The number of the electronic aviation document is indicated in the itinerary receipt, and includes 13 characters. This is the most important parameter for checking the document.

 

Errors in electronic air tickets

 

Aviation companies reserve the opportunity to prevent passengers from boarding the aircraft and refuse to fly with official papers containing errors. Unused e-tickets are returned under general conditions, according to the requirements set by airlines for people who for various reasons refuse a planned flight.

There are aviation companies, such as China Southern Airlines, AirBerlin, and carriers from Asia, which do not allow any inaccuracies in the spelling of the name of the passenger.

 

When flying to the United States of America (this rule applies to every airline), no errors in the air ticket are possible.

An electronic ticket has more advantages than a regular paper document: it can not be forged, simplicity and ease of purchase, convenience, time saving, reliable safety. When boarding an aircraft, passengers with electronic tickets have a chance to pass without a queue. Official papers shall be returned to the cash register in the manner prescribed by law, just as paper papers.

 

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