Star Alliance E-Ticketing
ARLINGTON (theHub.com) - Star Alliance today announced the launch of its global interline e-ticket product. Following an extensive testing schedule, interline e-ticketing is now being rolled out across the member carriers.
Air Canada and Lufthansa were the first pair to launch in November. ANA and United are coming online this month, with Air Canada and Air New Zealand due in January. US Airways and United already offer interline e-ticketing.
Other e-ticket pairings will become live as part of the Star Alliance global interline e-ticket rollout, which will be completed by the end of August 2005. At that point, customers will be able to travel across the entire Star Alliance Network using one single e-ticket.
Using the Star Alliance infrastructure, StarNet, one uniform standard has been developed for exchanging e-ticket information between the individual member carriers’ systems. The advantage of this, versus individual bilateral links, is that new members or changes in the system can be integrated more easily and quickly.
“Global interline electronic ticketing is a further example of how Star Alliance can help reduce complexity, while at the same time improve customer service and drive down costs for our member carriers,†said Jaan Albrecht, CEO, Star Alliance.
The alliance’s member airlines offer more than 14,000 daily flights, serving 772 destinations in 133 countries.
ARLINGTON (theHub.com) - Star Alliance today announced the launch of its global interline e-ticket product. Following an extensive testing schedule, interline e-ticketing is now being rolled out across the member carriers.
Air Canada and Lufthansa were the first pair to launch in November. ANA and United are coming online this month, with Air Canada and Air New Zealand due in January. US Airways and United already offer interline e-ticketing.
Other e-ticket pairings will become live as part of the Star Alliance global interline e-ticket rollout, which will be completed by the end of August 2005. At that point, customers will be able to travel across the entire Star Alliance Network using one single e-ticket.
Using the Star Alliance infrastructure, StarNet, one uniform standard has been developed for exchanging e-ticket information between the individual member carriers’ systems. The advantage of this, versus individual bilateral links, is that new members or changes in the system can be integrated more easily and quickly.
“Global interline electronic ticketing is a further example of how Star Alliance can help reduce complexity, while at the same time improve customer service and drive down costs for our member carriers,†said Jaan Albrecht, CEO, Star Alliance.
The alliance’s member airlines offer more than 14,000 daily flights, serving 772 destinations in 133 countries.
