Electronic passenger tickets were put into trial use in China Southern Airlines on March 28. Miss Wang Hongmei who took the Flight CZ3103 of China Southern Airlines from Guangzhou to Beijing becomes the first person in using e-tickets of China Civil Aviation.
Based on Internet and using electronic numbers in recording instead of ordinary paper tickets, e-ticket is the most advanced form of passenger ticket in today's world. Since it was first born in the United States in 1993, it has quickly become the trend of international air transportation because it complies with the market demand of the information society. The methods of booking paper-less and electronic tickets, accounting and performing the formalities for traveling by plane have provided the passengers with more conveniences and can help reduce the business cost of the airlines, therefore these tickets have been widely used in European and American countries.
Following the adoption of a series of measures last year, including booking online, shipping online, E-payment and publishing information about comprehensive tourist service websites, China Southern Airlines has taken the lead in providing e-tickets services for domestic transportation. At present, E-tickets are being put into trial use on the two routes from Guangzhou to Beijing and from Guangzhou to Changsha. Purchasers can help themselves (or through agents of travel agencies) to enter the website of China Southern Airlines on the Internet, www.cs-air.com, inquire about related flight information, have seats reserved, then pay online through "All in One Card" of the China Merchants Bank. . Passengers can easily get the onboard cards by showing their E-ticket numbers and ID cards to the service workers for computer check and verification. In this way, passengers can avoid the troubles resulted from missing tickets or forgetting to bring the tickets. They can also book E-tickets in alien places.
Electronic passenger tickets were put into trial use in China Southern Airlines on March 28. Miss Wang Hongmei who took the Flight CZ3103 of China Southern Airlines from Guangzhou to Beijing becomes the first person in using e-tickets of China Civil Aviation.
