e-ticketing started around the 1990's. anyone knows the details of the history? how did it become become successfull?\nand what are the challenges of e-ticketing? (this is not specifically for airlines only.) thank you so much.
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I know Jet BLue was the first in the airline industry to use e-ticketing.  Sorry I am also doing homework that is due before midnight so I can not do any research but hopefully this can be a starting point.
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My suggested changes are in CAPS. I also deleted a bunch of stuff.\n-Athenart\n---\nLeeJay’s airlines will be the preferred airline (OF WHOM?) throughout the world. THE GOAL OF LeeJay’s airlines is to PROVIDE OUR GUESTS/CLIENTS/CUSTOMERS hospitality and PERSONAL consideration WHILE offering the best quality service for a reasonable price. \n\nWE STRIVE to make our customers feel welcome and at home, AND we are committed to ongoing professional development TO REACH THAT GOAL. We ARE setting standards which other competing airlines will seek to match.\n\nWe provide our employees a stable work environment, with equal opportunity for learning and personal growth. We provide employees with the same concern, respect, and caring attitude  that they are expected to share externally with every customer. \n\nWe plan to obtain at least $200,000 (HOW? BE SPECIFIC) by June 29th, 2007.
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It seemed to me like it was nothing but hot air once again from FIFA. They messed up the allocation as well. Apparantly a figure of around 10% per game is all the actual supporting fans of their respective teams allocation while the rest of the tickets have all gone to corporate sponsors and German nationals.\nThe idea of having personal information and proof on each ticket was an attempt to cut out the black market trade in the tickets but they are not enforcing the idea at all making the whole thing look like a joke. Well done FIFA!
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OH MY GOSH!  I think everyone's got to hate them.  Who the heck charges ~$2 service fee PER TICKET and then ~$3 for a transaction fee at the end?  I've noticed prices differ depending on the event.  It's the most retarded thing ever.\n\nPLUS, don't you hate how you can't select seats?  You only get to choose seating areas.  If someone was savvy enough, I think they could totally beat out ticketmaster.  But obviously there's got to be some sort of barrier since nobody's doing it.
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Well, to be quite honest, I've never known anyone who has made a living with an internet business. That is not to say that it can't be done. However, I have my own business, which is doing quite well. I put a bit of money into it to get started, and I am doing great. I am a DJ/KJ..(KJ-karaoke) and it took a few years to get it off the ground. Now it's to the point that I'm double booked, and (thank God for me having 2 systems) I can pretty much keep up on shows. It just takes a lot of time and effort to get your own business going. Good luck!
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In fact, just such a system as you have described has been designed.  I saw it featured in Popular Science many years ago.\n\nProblem is, that it would be extremely expensive and prohibitively heavy.  The added expense, AND the added weight would have to translate into much much higher ticket prices.\n\nYou may argue that safety is a worth any price.  But, when you consider that millions of passengers arrive safely, without  incident, compared to the relatively few who are involved in plane crashes, even you might not think it worth a ten fold increase in ticket prices.
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It sounds similar to when we used to pick up pennies on the street.....now you can have ten lying around and we pass them by.\nI just scratched a ticket too and won a free draw worth $10.  \nI plan to get that new ticket just as soon as I remember to tuck it into my purse.....lol
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Yeah tell me about it.  Tickets are always supposedly sold out, but then you see so many seats empty at games.  And then theres those mother f-ers who leave when the game isnt even over! If youre a REAL fan, you stay the whole time.  Appreciate being at those games you ingrates.
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I think the internet servers are having trouble lately, I think it is caused by too many people demanding too many things.  I am experiencing similar problems in the last few days, but if you get on at odd times when the entire US isnt searching, like f/e 5:00 am, then it seems to be working.  Not real sure why, but Im sure if its happening to so many people it will be quickly corrected.
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We ran into a similiar situation with our son. He almost didn't come home because of it. I got on the phone and started calling each airline and asking for "military fares." I think I called at least a dozen of them. It was amazing that there were literally THOUSANDS of dollars between the quotes. American Airlines did the best for us. She even took the time to check the schedule to see that if he waited one more day to come home, it would save another couple hundred dollars. \n\nGet creative. You don't say where in Egypt or Texas, but would it be worth it to have him fly into Dallas vs. Houston or whatever? Make sense? When you talk to the airline reps, ask them for advice. Some will just be rude, others will do their best to help.\n\nTake care and good luck!\n\nTell your husband -- Thanks for serving!
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Why not? The only problem is many airlines are going out of business.\nGood Luck!
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Start with RT. Instead of building a complex ticket and help system and trying to integrate it with your site, use a solid and robust package that does what you need and only what you need. I've used RT and Bugzilla quite a bit and both of them are probably your best bet.
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I did in 1992. That was a long time ago so a lot has probably changed. I went with my mom to visit some family I had never met. I loved it there and had a lot of fun.
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try at least half that. usually 10-16% and almost no TA's sell airline tickets anymore, airlines stopped paying commission on them
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lol you have the luck of talking to a GSM here, \n\nall of the online bookings work like this.\n\nwe have alot of rooms empty alot of the time. \n\nthese rooms cost so much per day to keep up and running ours are about 23.17$ a day, that stacks up when you have 59 rooms, so we bid out to the online bookers for a cheaper rate, really places like hotels.com and such pay on avg 37.80 for each room. then they oversell to you for rates of such and such. that is as simple as it works. works teh same for there airline tickets as well
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Da ben dan,\nI think that it happened several times while I was here. I had points coming in a string, and no e-mail was sent to notify me of what it was. I don't know if it was a glitch, or perhaps what you said; we were reported for no good reason, and they caught up with it.
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I bought my car, a VW carbrio on ebay back in 2003. I bought two tickets (one-ways from NY and Flew my parents down to florida for a "vacation" and told them to pick it up for me and drive it back). Despite the fact that the aircondition didnt work perfect....still a great car.\n\nPS. My parents love to drive so this was not a cruel thing to suprise them with a 22hr drive home.\n\nI love ebay. My family uses it a lot since the things we like/want are not to be found in our area. My parents have sold trucks/cars/mowers on the site and I have bought tickets/collectables etc. I really trust ebay and have run into only a few problems with it. None that could not be worked out through the site to get my money back.