Galileo offers e-ticketing on five Chinese carriers
HONG KONG – Galileo has extended its e-ticketing capability to five Chinese carriers, namely China Eastern, Hainan Airlines, Shandong Airlines, Shanghai Airlines and Xiamen Airlines. Galileo is the first GDS to implement e-ticketing on the latter two carriers.
Effective immediately, Galileo-connected travel agents in selected Asian countries will be able to offer their customers e-tickets on these carriers. This follows Galileo’s July announcement that China’s leading carrier, Air China, has also become e-ticket ready, demonstrating the continuing trend of Asian airlines to actively work with Galileo to achieve this capability.
Galileo now has 190 airlines offering e-ticketing in over 94 countries. Year to date, the Galileo GDS has generated over 27 million e-tickets accounting for almost three out of every four tickets issued. This has saved over 14 acres of forest per month.
Through IATA’s initiative to have 96.5% of carriers become e-ticket ready, it is believed the airline industry can save at least US$3 billion per year.
Corinne Wan
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