Bangkok Airways on target for 100% Electronic Tickets by end of 2007

Bangkok Airways (PG) believes it will have no problem meeting the mission of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) that all airlines must be using Electronic Tickets (ET) on all routes by the end of 2007. PG’s implementation of ETs went successfully on all its domestic routes in July 2003, whilst flights to/ from Cambodia and Laos took place in mid 2006.

The remaining routes, i.e., Yangon, Singapore, Hong Kong, Hiroshima and six destinations in China are underway towards completion by the end of 2007. As of now, the airline’s ET volume is reportedly 92% of all tickets issued from all BSP agents throughout Thailand. 

Apart from its own routes, the airline also focuses on partnering with major long-haul carriers to create Interline Electronic Tickets (IET) in order to facilitate inbound traffic fed in from various significant markets of PG. Under such schemes, passengers travel under one booking reference with only one ET that covers flight itineraries of both long-haul sectors and those belonging to PG. For instance, a passenger traveling from London to Samui can issue a single ET that includes sectors between London and Bangkok, as well as Bangkok and Samui.

Carriers that are now capable of issuing IETs with Bangkok Airways are British Airways, Siem Reap Airways International, Japan Airlines and JALWAYS. More airlines including Singapore Airlines, SilkAir, Finnair, Asiana Airlines, EVA Airways, and EL AL Israel Airlines, will also be able to issue IETs with PG from November 2006.

From 2008 the airline plans to adopt the innovative Bar-coded Boarding Pass (BCBP).

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