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Kochi, June 1 Cutting across spatial and temporal divides, airlines across the world will be migrating from physical paper tickets to e-tickets from Sunday.

While paper tickets will be withdrawn across the world from June 1, domestic airlines operating within India will continue to use paper tickets on certain sectors as all Indian airports are yet to be fully e-ticket compliant, the IATA Travel Agents Association of India has said.

In the Indian context also, paper tickets are more expensive to generate and need to be physically moved between travel agency, airports and airlines. It is far easier to cancel, postpone and prepone e-tickets as compared to physical tickets. It is estimated that paper tickets cost about 10 times more than e-tickets.

Driven by the booming global computer sales and growing access to the Internet, the sale of electronic ticket is already estimated to account for a significant percentage of global airline bookings. Virtual tickets have simplified reservation procedures, enabled online check-in and provided greater security to the traveller.

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