QATAR Airways has reached agreements with 50 airlines around the world for interline electronic ticketing, enabling passengers to travel without a paper ticket to a wider choice of destinations. With the recent additions of Lufthansa and British carrier bmi to Qatar Airways's growing list of interline e-ticketing partners, the airline is able to offer its customers a global network of destinations across the continents, a spokesman said. Qatar Airways chief executive officer Akbar al-Baker said: “Qatar Airways is well on schedule to go ticketless on our entire network of 78 destinations worldwide by the end of 2007 despite the extended deadline. “We just have a handful of outstations left in our network which will be e-ticket compliant and will meet the original December 2007 deadline. “In addition, we have been working side by side to ensure our interline partners come on board with the e-ticketing initiative. Reaching 50 airline partners for interline e-ticket agreements has been very quick since we started this process in January this year,” he was quoted as saying by the Doha-based Gulf Times.
