The Travel Agents Association of India has sought government's intervention to stop the enforcement of implementing 100 per cent e-ticketing in India by the International Air Transport Association-Billing and Settlement Plan from June 1.
"We want the government to intervene, especially when our national carrier, Air India, itself is not 100 per cent e-ticket-enabled," TAAI President, C Venkateshwara Prasad, told reporters on Friday.
"Our national carrier and country's interest are most important and therefore, we believe that the ban on paper tickets must be withdrawn immediately," Prasad added.
IATA has set June 1, 2008, as the deadline for withdrawal of paper tickets, which means that it will process 100 per cent e-tickets from that date.
Of the 7-8-million international tickets, which are issued from India, close to 1.5 million or 20 per cent of them are paper tickets.
However, in domestic travel, about 95 per cent of the tickets issued are e-tickets and five per cent are paper ones. IATA issues two million paper tickets to India every year.
"We are not at all opposed to the concept as such, but as the airlines globally are not yet 100 per cent e-ticket ready, the journey ahead is going to be costly and cumbersome," he said.
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