Air India, was close to getting e-ticketing-enabled with only a few minor technological issues remaining to be sorted out, a senior airline official said.
"It is incorrect to say that Air India is not e-ticketing enabled. Only a few minor issues now need to be resolved," an Air India spokesperson told PTI in Mumbai on Friday.
The national air-carrier was working on these issues and was confident of attaining 100 per cent e-ticketing before the International Air Transport Association deadline of May 31, the official said.
Earlier in the day, Travel Agents Association of India President C Venkateshwara Prasad told reporters that Air India was not yet 100 per cent e-ticketing-enabled and sought deferment of the deadline on the ground that the national air-carrier was yet to get thus enabled.
"Our national carrier and the country's interest are most imporatant and therefore, we believe that the ban on paper tickets must be withdrawn immediately," Prasad said.
IATA has set June 1 as the deadline for withdrawal of paper tickets, which means that it will process 100 per cent e-tickets from that date onwards.
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