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Vietnam Airlines to Conduct E-Ticketing Late This Year

Posted on: Wednesday, 12 October 2005, 09:00 CDT

Vietnam Airlines to conduct e-ticketing late this year

HANOI, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- National flag carrier Vietnam Airlines is instituting an electronic ticketing service which is expected to be in place by the end of this year.

"We hope that e-tickets will totally replace paper tickets by the start of 2008," local newspaper Vietnam News on Tuesday quoted To Dinh Dung, head of the carrier's Research and Development Department as saying.

"With e-tickets, costs will be diminished remarkably compared with paper tickets, because there are no costs for printing, sending or filing. Everything is done in the computer system," he added.

In the world, the cost of generating an e-ticket is about 1 US dollar, one-tenth of that of a paper ticket, according to the International Air Transport Association. The association hopes that e-tickets will be popularized globally by the end of 2007, annually saving at least 3 billion dollars for the world airline industry.

On Monday, Vietnam officially joined the International Airlines Technical Pool (IATP). As a full IATP member, it is to become an official provider of materials and spare parts for Boeing 777 and Airbus 320 and 321 aircraft at the Vietnamese international airports of Noi Bai and Tan Son Nhat.

The national flag carrier is also to offer outside-hangar maintenance to partner airlines at the airports and receive the same services on a cooperative basis for its own aircraft at overseas airports.

Vietnam's aviation industry served over 4.7 million domestic and foreign passengers and 78,300 tons of cargoes in the first nine months this year, registering year-on-year rises of 24.7 percent and 6.8 percent respectively, according to the country's General Statistics Office.

Source: Xinhua News Agency - CEIS

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