These days you will usually get an electronic ticket when you take any flight, but not many years ago it was usual to fly on an usual paper ticket. Now let's have a look what are the advantages of this new kind of ticket and why it is better for you to travel using an electronic ticket.
In my opinion you will experience the biggest advantage even during your booking process, especially if you book your ticket on the internet. In the past you had to take a car and go to an agency to get your ticket printed, but these days you will receive you ticket via e-mail and you can print it at home. So as you can see it also saved you some time.
Once you book, your booking will get a booking code, usually 6 characters long like 3S1BQR. Using this code you may always review your booking at your airline website, or at the website of your reservation system. At most times www.checkmytrip.com should work for you just fine. This is the website of Amadeus reservation system, in my opinion the most common one. Should it not work you may also try www.virtuallythere.com for Sabre or www.viewtrip.com/ for Galileo GDS.
Once you go to the airport you just take your printed receipt and your passport or ID. It even should not be necessary to take the receipt with you, because they can find your ticket in the computer, but it's always better to have it with you any time you fly. At the airport go to your check-in desk and show your passport along with your receipt and you will get your boarding passes printed.
So you don't need to bring any paper ticket, only the receipt, but that is not absolutely necessary. You should be able to fly without that. Therefore your electronic ticket can't be lost, because it's always securely stored in your airline's computer and once you arrive at the airport they will find your ticket using your name.
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