At 61, Fakruddin Takulla now wants to book a ticket for 2038 - when he will be 100.

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For instance, a user could buy a plane ticket online and then book a hire car without having to sign on again and retype the destination.

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Godin is one of the most influential business bloggers in the world and he wrote a devastating critique of his experiences on the JetBlue website trying to book a ticket for a flight.

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But this was a bit of an anomaly as I had built my trip to California around a tourism industry event, a sort of mini-conference, which in turn used a travel agency to book my ticket.

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So you go to the airport, and book a standby ticket rather than reserve a seat.

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"It is in much the same way as you book a movie ticket by phone or online these days using your credit card and then when you get there you access your ticket through an ATM-type machine, " said Will, who is chairman of the World Cup ticketing sub-committee.

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The event, which was open to the club's season book holders, was an all-ticket sell out.

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Charing Cross Theatre said it was not reasonable to require them to include the commission fee in ticket prices because the website also gave theatre-goers the option to book in person at the box office, where no commission was payable.

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If a card belonging to a Berliner has never been used to purchase a plane ticket or buy goods outside Germany, the system may block an attempt to book a Moscow-Tokyo flight leaving in three hours.

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