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Continental Airlines today announced plans to eliminate paper tickets by
the end of this year for all travel on the airline, including interline (multi-carrier) tickets.
As a part of this program, Continental has terminated
50 interline ticketing and baggage agreements with other carriers that have
not implemented electronic interline capabilities.
By the end of 2004, Continental
expects all of its travelers will be using convenient eTickets, which will reduce loss, theft and paperwork hassles
for the airline and its customers.
"Because of the cost savings opportunity,
we are quite serious about our paperless objective and are doing everything we can to make one hundred percent paperless travel on
Continental a reality," said David Grizzle, Continental's Senior Vice President - Corporate Development.
Currently, 95 percent of Continental's
domestic customers are traveling on eTickets and 88 percent systemwide. eTickets are currently valid at all of the 266 airports served by Continental
around the world. After this year, Continental plans to eliminate issuing and
accepting paper tickets entirely, including for travel on all international
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