Efficacy and economy of online ticket booking

Mumbai: E-ticketing can be a time-saving way to plan your business or leisure trip. The convenience of booking air tickets online is evident from the research findings by the leading credit-card company, Visa International, stating that 40% of Indian online transactions in the first half of 2006 were air-ticket bookings. Moreover, all the domestic airlines are providing e-ticketing facilities these days for cutting operating costs.
Online ticket booking can be done directly through the website of an aircraft operator. However, if you are not the kind who prefer a particular airline, then you can check out travel sites, which collate flights details of all airlines, are the apt place to book or bid for air tickets. Travel portals, such as, travelguru.com, arzoo.com, yatra.com, indiatimes.com, rediff. com, makemytrip.com and cleartrip. com, would provide you all details of flights along with their fares in an ascending order, i.e., the lowest price ticket is featured first, on its web page.
You may get discounted prices on the travel sites, such as rediff, indiatimes and makemytrip, which offer auctions.
The travel sites provide two options - bid now or book now. Websites, such as indiatimes and rediff offer auctions.
25/12/06 Khyati Lodaya/Daily News & Analysis

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