Vocabulary check
Read this BA ticket information and find the words that mean the same as: 1) luggage; 2) be bigger than; 3) kept; 4) taken away from you: 5) make sure; 6) supply, give.
DIALOGUE 2
- What is an international ticket?
- An international ticket is concurrently a contract and an accounting document.
- What does it mean as a contract document?
- As a contract document a ticket provides for the contract of international carriage between a passenger and a carrier. Under this contract a carrier undertakes to carry a passenger and his baggage to a point of destination having provided the passenger with a seat according to the purchased ticket; the passenger undertakes to pay for his carriage or his excess baggage, if any, an established fare. Any questions?
- Yes. I understand that the contract of carriage establishes the rights and obligations both of a passenger and a carrier. But you've mentioned that a ticket is also an accounting document? What is its role in this function? I. - Right of you to ask such a question. As an accounting document a ticket gives the right to settle accounts between the issuing carrier and .the carriers . participating in transportation. Negligent completion of the ticket may delay and complicate settlement of accounts between carriers. So a ticket as an Important document must be completed with extreme carefulness. This requirement fully applies to ticket boxes, the number and purposes of which are stipulated by the Warsaw Convention and other international agreements.
- Thank you, It is useful to learn this information.
- Is there anything you'd like to add to my information?
- Only that a ticket is also a personal document and is completed for each passenger. It should be used only by the person whose name appears in it.
- Yes, one should know that it is very important and should be strictly observed a ticket may in no case be transferred or resold to any other person. In case a resale or transfer of a ticket is established the ticket is cancelled and not refundable.
VOCABULARY CHECK
Make sure that you know the words: excess, purchase, undertake, destination, rights and obligations, accounting document, negligent completion, settlement of accounts, with extreme carefulness, stipulate, transfer, sell, resale, cancel, refund.
UNDERSTANDING CHECK
Answer the following questions:
l. What is an international ticket?
2. Why is a ticket an accounting document?
3. Why is a ticket a contract document?
4. Why is a ticket a personal document?
TEXT 8. DESCRIPTION OF TICKET
A ticket presents a booklet with tear-off coupons of different colours. On the front cover of the ticket there are the airline's flag, its address and complete name of the ticket. In the upper right-hand corner of the ticket there are the airline form number of four digits and a serial number of eight digits And in the upper left-hand corner a Roman numeral indicates the number of bight coupons contained in the ticket.
On the inside part of the front cover (page 2), on pages 3-8 <<Conditions of Contracb>, «Advice to International passengers on limitation of liability» are printed; there is also indication of town terminal address and the time of check-in at the airport. There are also lists of articles allowed to be carried free and restricted to carriage.
These are followed by the tear-off coupons of three colours. <<Audit Coupon» /green colour/ serves for verification of correctness of application of fares and for control purposes. Upon completion it is withdrawn and together with the ticket sales report is forwarded to the International Revenue Accounting Centre. A passenger receives a ticket without this coupon.
«Agent Coupon>> (pink colour) is a document to be retained by the selling office. Upon completion it is detached.
«Flight Coupons>> (yellow colour). There may be from 1 to 4 such coupons in a ticket depending on the number of transfers. At every point of departure one flight coupon is to be detached from the ticket. A flight coupon is not to be accepted if the following flight coupon appears to have been used.
The inside part of the back cover of the ticket -«Passenger Coupon>) - is a document to be remained in the passenger's possession upon completion of carriage and serves as evidence of the contract of carriage.