Dont call me Shirley
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- Aug 20, 2002
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As most readers of this forum know, US East (037) has interline e-tkting with several carriers (AA, US, CO, NW and others); one carrier lacking is Alaska Airlines. While US East and AS have a standard interline ticket/bag agreement with each other, US has, for several months now, been unable to sell tickets on AS. Alaska's availability displays have been supressed in SABRE.
The reason is that AS has apparently gone all electronic* and will not accept paper tickets from US. (Invol reroutes and NRSA are excepted). When this situation first came about, I expected that IET (interline e-tkt) would soon follow, but it has not. Does anyone know what the delay is?
*Imagine if US went all e-tkts: What would the agents do who now just "VCRRINT:C1/2" everytime they cant get an E-tkt BP?
The reason is that AS has apparently gone all electronic* and will not accept paper tickets from US. (Invol reroutes and NRSA are excepted). When this situation first came about, I expected that IET (interline e-tkt) would soon follow, but it has not. Does anyone know what the delay is?
*Imagine if US went all e-tkts: What would the agents do who now just "VCRRINT:C1/2" everytime they cant get an E-tkt BP?