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IATA: Electronic ticketing must increase

Hotel Booking The International Air Transport Association has announced that global electronic ticketing (ET) penetration in its billing settlement plans (BSPs) rose by 10.4% points during the first quarter and by 20% points year over year to 49%.

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Travel Agency 142 airlines are now issuing electronic tickets in IATA BSPs, while a further 208 airlines use BSPs to issue only paper tickets.

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Cheap Hotel IATA released the results at its industry Simplifying the Business conference being held in Hong Kong.

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Flight Booking Compared to the same period last year Europe led all regions with a 25% point increase in ET penetration followed by North Asia (22%), Africa (20%), Asia Pacific (16%), Americas (12%) and Middle East North Africa (6%).

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Travel Agent In North Asia, 11 of the 24 airlines based in the region that use IATA's BSP have issued electronic tickets.

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Hotel Chicago Most gains have been made since IATA began coordinating efforts with Chinese airlines, GDS provider Travelsky and the Civil Aviation Authority of China (CAAC) in March 2005.

Online Booking Simplifying the business is a national programme in China as that country prepares for the 2008 Olympics.

Travel Health Insurance To reach the 2006 year-end target of 70% set by IATA's Board of Governors, the global monthly penetration rate must increase to nearly 3% per month versus the 1.7% average rise recorded over the past 12 months.

Hotel Reservation In some regions where ET is lagging, such as Middle East North Africa at 6%, penetration must grow at close to 5% each month until the end of 2007.

London Hotel Booking In other Simplifying the Business developments, the number of airports using common use self service (CUSS) check-in rose from 12 to 27 year over year.

Discount Travel The industry target is to have a total of 35 airports operating CUSS by year-end.

Orlando Hotel Additionally during the first three months of the year, IATA signed new memoranda of understanding with JFK, Newark, La Guardia Helsinki and Kuala Lumpur to progressively roll out CUSS.

Booking Agency The number of airlines using IATA standard bar coded boarding passes jumped from 0 to 15 since March 2005.

International Travel Medical IATA introduced an industry standard for 2 dimensional (2D) bar coded boarding passes late in 2004 to enable their use on interline journeys.

New York Hotel According to the results of a recent BCBP survey conducted by IATA, 74 carriers around the world, representing 76% of traffic, will be using the new standard by the end of 2007.

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