Jet Airways plans to switch to e-tickets in the coming years

Jet Airways plans to switch to e-tickets in the coming years

Naresh Goyal promoted Jet Airways has plans to switch entirely to e-tickets in the coming years. The aim is to reduce costs related with issuing tickets. This would also help them automating the entire process for easier management of their flights.

Jet Airways CEO Wolfgang Prock-Schauer said in a statement on these plans: “Presently, we have 20 per cent of our business comes through E-ticketing. By next three months, we will be taking it to 50 per cent. By 2007, we expect out total business will be based on E-ticketing.”

The company aims to equip as many as 2000 agents with machines to issue e-tickets from Jet Airways.

Prock-Schauer added: “We have a big pool of agents, which is expected to start these operations once these 2,000 agents are permitted to access these services.” The company is for now planning to add five “Kiosk Check-ins” at Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore airports.