Your paper ticket is for your entire itinerary, including your UA legs, am I correct?

What I've seen often when working with ticketing issues at the gate and the passenger has a paper ticket is something like this, so this would be my best guesstimation:

The passenger has an electronic ticket record in the PNR, however in the status field (it has things like CKIN for checked-in, RFND for refunded, PRTD for printed) it has a status code of PAPR. So you can print an electronic receipt and everything, but you're not going anywhere if you arrive at the airport sans paper tickets. It basically keeps a record of the tickets electronically for quick reference.

Hope this helps, and have a wonderful trip! Hopefully we'll have an interline ETKT agreement with ANA soon enough

Happy Travels!
Kai

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[This message has been edited by UAX@SFO (edited Jan 31, 2004).]