<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Tango:
For as long as you live, there will always be at least one airline out there (deep Africa) that will not be able to E-ticket you. 99.9999% of all tickets will be E-tickets but there will always be a need to generate a paper ticket for that .0001%.
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Or, in this case, there will simply be that one airline on which American will not offer interline ticketing. That's American's stated plan in this case... either get an airline to cooperate with interline e-ticketing, or cease to offer interline ticketing with that carrier at all.