IATA extends compulsory eticketing deadline

[KeithMEL]

http://www.iata.org/html_email/39543...newsletter.htm

ET deadline extended - May 31, 2008

As of April 2007, ET global penetration reached 80% and 1,100 interline agreements had been established.

Whilst airlines forecast reaching 96.6% ET by December 2007, IATA management produced data that projected 92% as being more likely. Based on this data and the concerns expressed by a number of airlines, the Board and AGM decided to extend the deadline to 31 May 2008.

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[WSSS]

I read about it in the papers sometime last week... No comments.

[KeithMEL]

I hope the IT folks find some way to handle RTW products on etickets. Because at the moment etickets can only handle 16 segments, including surface segments. The xONEx allows a max of 20 flown segments, while the xRWSTARx allows 24 flown. I hope they don't start restricting RTWs to 16 flown/surface segments...