United Airlines has teamed with IBM and British Airways' Speedwing consulting arm to market its E-Ticket electronic-ticketing system to carriers worldwide. United says that more than 30% of eligible customers now use the E-Ticket service introduced a year ago on the US carrier's 4,000 daily domestic flights. United plans to expand electronic ticketing to international flights in the first half of 1997.
Under the agreement, IBM will install and support electronic-ticketing systems based on United's products. Speedwing, meanwhile, has been granted exclusive rights to market the E-ticket service to many of its worldwide airline customers. The companies have begun joint marketing in Europe, Asia and Latin America.
The agreement "-strengthens our efforts to make United's E-Ticket service the standard for the airline industry", it says.
Source: Flight International
