Air Ticket
An airline ticket is a document, issued by an airline or a travel agency, to confirm that an individual has purchased a seat on a flight on an aircraft. This document is then used to obtain a boarding pass, at the airport. Then with the boarding pass and the attached ticket, the passenger is allowed to board the aircraft.
There are two sorts of airline tickets - the older style with coupons now referred to as a paper ticket, and the now more common electronic ticket usually referred to as an e-ticket.
Details:
Regardless of the type, all tickets contain details of the following information:
- The passenger's name.
- The issuing airline.
- A ticket number, including the airline's 3 digit code at the start of the number.
- The cities the ticket is valid for travel between.
- Flight that the ticket is valid for. (Unless the ticket is "open")
- Baggage allowance. (Not always visible on a printout but recorded electronically for the airline)
- Fare. (Not always visible on a printout but recorded electronically for the airline)
- Taxes. (Not always visible on a printout but recorded electronically for the airline)
- The "Fare Basis", an alpha or alpha-numeric code that identifies the fare.
- Restrictions on changes and refunds. (Not always shown in detail, but referred to).
- Dates that the ticket is valid for.
- "Form of payment", i.e., details of how the ticket was paid for, which will in turn affect how it would be refunded.
- The Rate of Exchange used to calculate any international parts of the fare and tax.
- A "Fare Construction" or "Linear" showing the breakdown of the total fare.
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