A crime has occurred in Kunming, Yunan Province involving airline e-tickets that has exposed a major flaw in China's e-ticketing system.<\/p>\n
Airline companies like China Southern, Air China, and China Eastern are all quickly changing over to use e-tickets for their travelers, and though there have been some obstacles — such as adequate invoicing of ticket purchases — most companies seem to be smoothly integrating the new system into their operations.<\/p>\n
The suspect, surnamed Chen, is reported to have pretended to be a salesperson representing a flight ticketing agency, and lured a buyer with a 70% discount into booking 13 round-trip e-tickets between Kunming and Ningbo, which were worth a total of RMB21,480. The buyer said he checked with the airline ticket sales department that night, and confirmed that there was a record for these tickets. But when he checked again later on January 12, he found that those tickets sold by Chen were fake ones.<\/p>\n
Police said that because passengers and agents can get the refund directly if they return their e-tickets with the ticket vouchers, criminal can take advantage of this rule to return the e-tickets and get the money after the buyer's check the validity of the tickets. They reminded consumers to choose legal ticket dealers to buy e-tickets until this loophole is fixed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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