In recent past number of travel agencies have suddenly gone bankrupt or closed shops leaving large number of customers without tickets which they had apparently purchased several months in advance. These customers were shocked, when they went to airport to catch their flights, and were told that there exist no tickets in their names. The piece of paper which they thought was E-ticket was in fact an itinerary (booking). An itinerary not backed up by a ticket is a useless piece of paper. A booking or an itinerary is automatically cancelled by airlines if tickets are not purchased/issued within few days or some times within few hours of booking. If your travel agent or an online travel website has purchased a ticket from Airline against that itinerary, only then that itinerary has a value otherwise it’s a piece of paper with no value. One way of making sure that you have purchased an actual E-Ticket is

It’s 5.00 PM, Sunday evening in Auckland and I got a phone call from my family in Fiji that I urgently need to reach Fiji by next available flight due to some family emergency. I called airlines to buy a ticket for the next earliest flight departing at 11.45 PM. I told the ticketing officer that I have a New Zealand passport which is expiring after 2 months, and there comes the bolt from the blue, I was informed that to travel to Fiji, a passport must be valid for at least 6 months from the date of travel. That meant that I will not be allowed to even board the flight for Fiji unless I get my passport renewed. I searched on google: How to renew NZ passport in 2 hours on a Sunday night To my pleasant surprise, I was directed by google search to Travel India Limited, a Papatoetoe travel agency’s this blog article, and by 9.45 PM I was at the airport checking-in for my flight to Fiji with a new passport, than