How to check the authenticity of a ticket purchased on the Internet? Recently, one of the readers of my blog about tourism asked me this question, to which I decided to write a slightly extended answer in the form of an article, I hope this article will help you avoid unpleasant situations when buying a plane ticket on the Internet.
All tourists should be perfectly aware that when you buy a ticket via the Internet, fraud schemes can operate here too, waiting for you at the right time, especially during summer vacations or long vacations in winter, when you especially want to fly somewhere - away from your main habitat to sea.
How can you verify the authenticity of the service where you buy a plane ticket?
First of all, when verifying the authenticity of the site and the reliability of the provision of information, you need not only to know a few rules that you should pay attention to, but also advise you to learn them in your future tourist life:
- First of all, we turn to a proven service for searching and booking plane tickets. If you do not know where you can buy a real ticket, then we read the article with important information about the verified places for buying tickets.
- Be sure to check the price of the found air ticket in other search services, if you do not know how to buy a cheap air ticket, be sure to read the article, which contains all the necessary information.
- Never look at huge discounts on air tickets, well, they cannot cost less than the airline itself, and the travel agency that sells such tickets should already be suspicious. It is imperative to check the ticket price and other travel agencies, prices should not vary greatly.
- When buying an air ticket on an unfamiliar service, we look at information about the site, phone numbers of the support service, look at the address in search engines, read the forums about this service. For more advanced users, there is a very good service where you can check the age of the site https://whois.net. If such a service exists literally for a few days or weeks - let's run from here!
- Be sure to pay attention to the payment details, no transfers from card to card or through electronic money, everything must be as expected, with confirmation through the bank, that is, the bank must always confirm the authenticity of the transaction.
How to check the authenticity of the ticket?
Here we will talk about the well-known electronic ticket (ticket), which is bought via the Internet by millions of tourists every day. You have never had any doubts that you are giving a considerable amount of money, and for this you are given an ordinary piece of paper with letters and numbers. Moreover, according to statistics, such doubts arise only among Russians, in Europe for some reason they take this very calmly and do not even think about it.
So how do you check the authenticity of a plane ticket when buying online? As you have already noticed, the electronic ticket does not look presentable at all, here the first thing we need to pay attention to is the presence of the reservation number, the names of passengers with the flight number. It is worth noting that e-tickets are of different types, there are receipts that can tell you all the information on one sheet, and there are absolutely empty ones, where there is nothing but some aspects.
All that you need to know from such electronic options, I have already indicated a little higher: the reservation number, the names of the passengers and the flight number. Next, we move on to electronic booking systems for air tickets and check the authenticity; in Russia, three booking systems are more developed:
- Siren
- Amadeus
- Galileo
Each booking engine has its own sites that can be found in search engines, below I will give a list of them. If you know your booking system, then we go to the website of the booking system we need and type in the booking number, the surname of passengers in Latin, as it is written on the ticket. Next, you will see a new window with information about the reservation of seats, this confirms the authenticity of the purchase via the Internet by 100 percent.
How to check through which booking system the ticket was issued
In order to determine through which booking system your e-ticket was made and issued, you need to carefully read all the information described in your receipt (e-ticket). We read everything carefully and find, for example, such abbreviations:
- TCH - means that your electronic ticket was issued through the ‘Sirena’ reservation system
- 1A - discharged through the ‘Amadeus’ system
- Etc
Then we go to the website of the booking system and enter the reservation number, your last name, always in Latin letters, everything, in a new window you will have access to all the information about the authenticity of the reservation, which is actually a small contract between you and the air carrier.
How to check an air ticket in the booking system
Here is a small list of those booking systems, through the Internet pages of which you can very easily verify the authenticity of the booking, in brackets I indicated the codes (abbreviations of the booking system).
Amadeus CMT booking system
- https://www.checkmytrip.com Amadeus Classic (1A)
- https://classic.checkmytrip.com Saber / Abacus (#A)
- https://www.virtuallythere.com Apollo / Galileo (1S)
- https://www.viewtrip.com Worldspan (1G)
- https://mytripandmore.com Axess (1P)
- https://www.tripforyou.net Siren (1J)
- https://www.myairlines.ru Travelsky (1H)
- https://travelsky.com/newsky/validate.html (1E)
Where to check the authenticity of the site where you can buy a ticket
Recently, a joint project of a well-known airline booking provider and a security group to prevent cyber fraudsters came out on the Internet. The project is called realbilet.rf The only drawback that I found here is that information about the checked site does not come immediately, you are asked to wait a little. You go to the site real ticket.rf, type in the address of the site where you decided to buy a plane ticket, then type in your mailbox to which all the necessary information about the dubious site will come. If the information about its doubtfulness is confirmed, then this site is immediately blocked!
Where to buy tickets?
Personally, I have already chosen those sites for myself on which I can buy plane tickets without fears and unnecessary questions, I trust them, and make purchases without thinking about the problems that may arise on other dubious Internet booking systems. In addition, these sites are already working with fully verified air service providers!
All flight ticket options from trusted suppliers with cheap prices can be found on my online booking page
Decryption of an electronic ticket
For a more illustrative example, I decided to post a photo of the electronic version with all the explanations, I hope this example will speed up the solution of problems and the question of the reliability of information will be settled.
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