Fantastic. I haven't used a paper ticket in years.

I'm guessing the 50,000 trees saved thing ignores the little detail that most people print off their e-tickets, since you don't really want to get to the airport, find out your booking has gone missing, and not have any evidence that you made it.

You beat me to it Neil. In fact they tell you to print out your receipt and bring it to the airport. Rather than save anything, it just shifts the cost of the paper/printing from the airline to you.

We've been had.

I don't think I've printed out an e-ticket in the last five years. Usually jot down the confirmation number on my cell, but for the most part they look up reservations using your name (even for international flights) or the impersonal check-in machine credit card swipe.

Of course, they're still printing out a boarding pass, receipt, and all those extra advertisements that get thrown away every flight, so I'm not exactly impressed by their newfound environmental concern.

yay! one more thing I can't lose while away...

I still think it'll save some trees. In the olden days (> 3 or 4 years ago) you'd get your paper ticket booklet, which was surrounded by a folded paper itinerary, often printed in duplicate or triplicate, all stuffed into a paper envelope.

If I print off the e-ticket, I adjust the page setup to squish all the pertinent info on one page, and only print off page 1. I don't need the 12 paragraphs of disclaimers and fine print and internet borders that come after.

Sounds good to me!

Just last year I boooked online and instead of giving me an e-ticket it told me to go to the nearest Air Canada ticket agent to pickup the ticket. When I went to the airport to pick it up the people behind the desk were very confused because none of them had issued a carbon-copy ticket in years. The supervisor ended up on the phone asking the procedure.

Then... I managed to delay my connecting flight in Frankfurt because I didn't know I had to give Lufthansa the Boarding Pass AND the carbon-copy ticket as I boarded the plane. only a 10 minute delay as we rolled back to the gate.

Fun fun, apparently nobody along the way understood this 1981 Carbon-Copy ticket, or why it was being used in 2006.

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Originally posted by ContinentalOp:
...had placed its very last order for paper tickets.... they'll be 100 percent reliant on e-ticketing.....50,000 trees will be saved each year.

"Bisignani did not say whether the $9 in cost savings (per ticket) would or should be passed on to passengers."
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So what then are e-tickets made of? Marshmallows? Slabs of cement?

The $9 get passed on to us passengers? In your dreams!

Have a nice day, Whistler.


Travel broadens the mind and flattens the wallet. SMC.

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Originally posted by Whistler:
So what then are e-tickets made of?

The Ether.

day late and a dollar short...i just did a trip this past summer using all paper tickets with my airpass...I had like 10 paper tickets and all these receipts, and the whole time was scared out of my mind that I would lose them and be stuck somewhere in asia...e-tickets thank you g-d...

Yea they are made out of paper, but sometimes you dont even need them...often times with e-tickets you are in the computer...and just need to show an id or passport