Question: How many FTers collect their boarding passes?

ktakahashi · Feb 25, 09, 8:31 am

My spouse, friends, colleagues all think I am nuts (granted none of them are on FT). I have collected every boarding pass since January 1, 2000. It all started unofficially during my first real job. My boss at the time started a collection. I didn't think much about it then but when I started flying a lot more frequently, I said ... what they hay, it's the year 2000 so I'll give it a whirl.

My question is ... am I nuts? How many of you have a collection? Yes, looking for a bit of validation here.

Thanks!

Non-NonRev · Feb 25, 09, 8:35 am

I collected in the 1970s and early 1980s, but lost interest when my travel for business went into high gear.

The only ones I regret not keeping are are my BPs for Concorde (BA).

fimo · Feb 25, 09, 8:36 am

I wouldn't say that I 'collect' mine in a collector's sense, but yes, I do keep all of mine and have done so since 2000 as well. Travel before that was pretty minimal so I do have a couple of BPs from before that but didn't make an effort then.

antlass · Feb 25, 09, 8:40 am

haha! I do too! My intent is to keep them until I verify that my FF miles post to my account... but I never do go back and purge them - so I have quite a few lurking around!

linsj · Feb 25, 09, 8:46 am

Only until the miles post. I'm drowning in paper and don't need to collect any more!

mikew99 · Feb 25, 09, 9:25 am

I generally don't keep my boarding passes (I'm trying to kick my paper collection habit), but I did keep those from my Concorde trip back in 2003. And, I framed the ones from my last F trip to Asia, not so much because it was a memorable trip, but because I thought the collage of boarding passes from 4 different airlines (UA, LH, SQ, and MH) made for a colorful piece of art.

USPhilly · Feb 25, 09, 9:39 am

I keep all mine as well. I'm hoping to one day put something together with them (as a coffee table top or bar top maybe?) I don't know but yes, I keep them.

gdaily · Feb 25, 09, 9:43 am

I collect stamps, coins, smurfs, telephones, M*A*SH memorabilia and some other stuff, but not bording passes. Im happy that Im not that insane.

B747-437B · Feb 25, 09, 10:09 am

I've got a box with approx. 1500 boarding pass stubs going back to the mid-90s.

gglave · Feb 25, 09, 10:12 am

I've got a box with all my boarding passes going back to 1989.

They're not as exciting today, now that I print them myself as part of online checkin, but I still keep them.

cynicAAl · Feb 25, 09, 10:14 am

I have a drawer with every BP since 1988 (since college). Lots of Reno Air, America West, TWA in there. I don't know why I save them, I'm really not a pack rat.

gj83 · Feb 25, 09, 10:15 am

I don't keep paper. I do print my BPs to PDFs when I check in online. I save those. I don't scan paper when I have to check in at the airport...i just let those slide. I shred paper after the miles post.

N965VJ · Feb 25, 09, 10:41 am

Many of mine have been saved incidentally since I use the as bookmarks.

TMOliver · Feb 25, 09, 11:25 am

Saved since about 1980.... All sorts of FF, business expense, re-creation needs, etc..

Every year, they go into a new cardboard file storage box with other financial documentation, then on to the stack of file boxes in th storage room, now three tall stacks, and time to call the document destroyers for a pickup.

Allows me to deduct a few more square feet of floor space as allocated to home office use. Not much, but a few dollars in deductions.

fairviewroad · Feb 25, 09, 12:26 pm

I kept them back when they were all the same size and paper stock.

Now, a BP may be an entire 8 1/2 X 11 sheet, or it may be a whispy-thin paper with ink that fades in a matter of days...much harder to save.

I generally only save long-haul int'l BP's now.