Alaska Airlines Increases E-Ticket Capability in Canada.Business Editors, Travel Writers SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 18, 2001 Alaska Airlines Alaska Airlines, (NYSE: ALK) is an airline based in Seattle, Washington, United States. It operates hubs at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, Los Angeles International Airport, and Portland International Airport. and Horizon Air have implemented electronic ticketing capability with Sabre in Canada, allowing more Canadian Canadian (kənā`dēən), river, 906 mi (1,458 km) long, rising in NE New Mexico. and flowing E across N Texas and central Oklahoma into the Arkansas River in E Oklahoma. travel agencies to issue e-tickets on Alaska. With the introduction of electronic ticketing to agencies that use Sabre, nearly all travel agencies in Canada can now issue electronic tickets on Alaska. Sabre is the largest CRS CRS Course CRS Certified Residential Specialist (real estate certification) CRS Central Reservation System CRS Can't Remember Stuff (polite form) CRS Cost Reduction Strategy CRS Consumer Relations Specialist provider in Canada. Galileo and Worldspan have already been able to issue e-tickets on Alaska. "This added ability provides travel agents and their customers the convenience that comes with electronic ticketing," said Gregg Saretsky, Alaska's senior vice president of marketing and planning. "Most customers have discovered the benefits of electronic tickets, including the use of our Instant Travel Machines for self check in and our suite of self service products." Customers will also receive 500 bonus Mileage MILEAGE. A compensation allowed by law to officers, for their trouble and expenses in travelling on public business. 2. The mileage allowed to members of congress, is eight dollars for every twenty miles of estimated distance, by the most usual roads, from his Plan miles when using an ITM ITM See: In-the-money for self check in at Vancouver airport through Sept. 30. Alaska Airlines is a leader in electronic ticket technology. System wide, two-thirds of all Alaska Airlines customers already choose electronic tickets. Alaska and its sister carrier, Horizon Air, together serve 75 cities in the Lower 48, Alaska, Canada and Mexico, with more than 1,100 daily departures. For more news and information, visit the Alaska Airlines Newsroom on the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the at http://newsroom.alaskaair.com. |
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