Travel With an Electronic Ticket

It doesn't matter how many pages you print from the internet when you purchase an air ticket. Sometimes these web sites or travel agencies have problems trying to issue an electronic ticket number or problems with connecting their systems to the airlines, causing awful surprises like “no reservation found" or even worse; you don't have a ticket number on your reservation, meaning you might need to pay for a new ticket in order to make the flight today, even if you can clear it up later.

Steps

  1. When you purchase your ticket the websites always will give you a confirmation number, THIS IS NOT THE TICKET NUMBER, is most of the times the reservation locator and it could be different for each airline.
  2. The E-ticket number is a serial of 13 numbers like 000-1234567890
  3. You could have one e-ticket number for the whole itinerary or different ticket numbers for different segments, lets say Miami - Los Angeles - Miami could be in one ticket number, or Miami - Los Angeles one e-ticket number and Los Angeles - Miami another.

Tips

  • Always make sure to have an itinerary printed for the flights you are going to take. This itinerary should have:
    • reservation locator for the airline (could be serial letters like RPPVL6)
    • Itinerary of flight with local departure time and local arrival time
    • Electronic ticket number for reservation like 654-1234567890
    • phone numbers of customer support from the travel agency or website (hopefully 24hour support)

Warnings

  • Always, always, always write down the name of the person who you talk to. Sometimes not getting the name of the person is the difference between a good or bad outcome.
  • If you make changes on your Itinerary the Electronic ticket number might change, so always ask your source if the ticket number will remain the same or will change, and if there is any penalty for changes (most of the time this extra charges are pending at the airport.

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