Booking tickets for domestic airlines

In the case of an airline ticket the e-ticket rapidly replaced the older multi-layered paper tickets (from close to zero to 100 in about 10 years) and became mandatory for IATA members as from June 1, 2008. During the last few years, where paper tickets were still available, airlines frequently charged extra for issuing them.

Once a reservation is made, an e-ticket exists only as a digital record in the airline computers. Customers usually print out or are provided a copy of their e-ticket itinerary receipt which contains the record locator or reservation number and the e-ticket number. It is also possible to have print copies of an e-ticket itinerary receipt, hence the "loss" of an airline ticket becomes impossible.