Users could even conceivably buy their air ticket using their phone at a convenience store with such readers.
This along with higher average daily rates (ADRs) and air ticket prices contributed to robust growth this quarter.
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What about the person who can't afford an air ticket, an airline ticket?
Some excesses have been abolished, such as flat-rate travel expenses often worth five times the actual cost of an air ticket.
Until now, Orbitz was mainly focused on domestic air ticket bookings.
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Despite shrinking commissions in the form of distribution fees earned on air tickets, Expedia and other online travel agencies continue to focus on attracting air ticket bookings.
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Backed by the acquisition of VIA Travel, the company witnessed a 14% y-o-y increase in air ticket revenues though it does not anticipate the positive trend to continue in the future.
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If you can pay those prices, says Eclipse CEO Vern Raburn, you can swing the price of a private air taxi ticket.
Some economists also argue that people who have delayed replacing big-ticket items like air conditioners and dishwashers aren't likely to hold out much longer and could soon start buying.
He founded and runs Air Serv, which provides ticket checkers, airplane cleaners and cargo handlers for airlines at 27 U.S. airports. (Airport security is now overseen by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.) Argenbright is also chief executive of SecurAmerica, a three-year-old company that provides security guards for corporate campuses and office buildings.
He founded and runs Air Serv, which provides ticket checkers, airplane cleaners and cargo handlers for airlines at 27 U.S. airports. (Airport security is now overseen by the Department of Homeland Security's Transportation Security Administration.) Argenbright is also chief executive of SecurAmerica, a three-year-old company that provides security guards for corporate campuses and office buildings.
He claims that 18% of their UK ticket revenue is now Air Passenger Duty charges.
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Items found in the same area Saturday were confirmed to have come from the jet, including pieces of the aircraft's wing section, luggage and a leather briefcase containing an airplane ticket with a reservation code for the doomed flight, Brazilian air force spokesman Jorge Amaral said.
Travel over the end-of-year holidays has began to reacclimatise the public to air transport, and the persistently low price of oil is helping to keep ticket tariffs down.
Jeannard, who was wearing a shirt with an Air France logo and captain's epaulets on his shoulder, had a ticket for a Florida-bound US Airways flight Wednesday and asked at the check-in counter for an upgrade, authorities said.
Air France offers obese passengers booking a second seat up to 33 percent off the ticket price, depending on the type of seat and availability.
"We compete in the land of the giants, " says Jones, 56, a onetime fighter pilot for the Air Force who later spent 15 years coaxing Congress and the Pentagon to fund big-ticket Rockwell International programs like the B-1 bomber.
In key European markets, high-speed rail ticket prices are predicted to rise by more than 4% next year due to its popularity over air, according to forecasts by Carlson Wagonlit, a global travel management company.
Although Air Force One's operating costs per person far exceed the cost of even a first-class commercial ticket, the logic is that it's unfair to charge the president's campaign for the full cost of operating Air Force One because he has no choice but to fly on the presidential plane for security reasons.
The Air Transport Users Council says growing numbers of airports are charging fees to cover development and security on top of their ticket prices.
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