{"id":35023,"date":"2005-12-21T23:25:24","date_gmt":"2005-12-21T15:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/2005\/12\/21\/air-china-expands-e-ticket-bookings\/"},"modified":"2005-12-21T23:25:24","modified_gmt":"2005-12-21T15:25:24","slug":"air-china-expands-e-ticket-bookings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/2005\/12\/21\/35023\/","title":{"rendered":"Air China Expands E-Ticket Bookings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"72\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/images\/Air-China-Logo.gif\" width=\"120\" align=\"right\">Air China has completed a comprehensive e-ticket platform which enables travelers in 62 cities to book an air ticket online.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to Xu Jianqiang, Party secretary and deputy director of Air China's E-commerce Commission, Air China has developed multiple sales patterns for e-tickets since July 1, 2003 when the first e-ticket was issued.<\/p>\n<p>By the end of November this year, it had opened e-ticketing services in all the 62 cities in the mainland and Hong Kong where it has flight arrangements. It has also launched e-ticketing for flights to the US, and is expected to do so for those to Canada and South Korea by the end of this year. <\/p>\n<p>In addition, Air China has reached agreements with Shandong Airlines and Shanghai Airlines for selling e-tickets. By the end of this year, it will also work with Cathay Pacific for international lines. <\/p>\n<p>The efforts made by Air China shows the airline is a move towards regulating the air ticket sales in China. At present, e-tickets account for 20% of Air China's total ticket sales, and 60% of that of China's total aviation industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air China has completed a comprehensive e-ticket platform which enables travelers in 62 cities to book an air ticket online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12723],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}