Originally Posted by
nomadic.relief
I have boxes of old boarding passes I plan on going through in the next month or two. Oldest one I think is a CP one from 1990.
Even now, I tend to get a hard copy printed at the airport 'cause I have had one too many "technical" failures when I really needed it. As handy as the electronic passes are, I just don't trust them. Plus, I don't fly quite as much as some, so it's a cool memory box - it's not all YVR-YYC-YQU flights.
I too prefer flightmemory.com.
I remember on my final day of EYW this year, I was in Gander, and the security agent highlighted my boarding pass. I keep hard copies of EYW as my souvenir
I went to the gate and asked if they could reprint it, because I wanted a clean one for my collection, as I show her my envelope of boarding passes.
"Oh, is that every flight you've ever taken?"
"No, this is just the past week."
I then had to explain to several employees what I was doing
But I agree about paper boarding passes. The best example I have was a UA flight in CUN. Huge check-in line, so I used the electronic pass to get through security. I went up to the gate, and asked for a paper boarding pass, and I tried to pull up the electronic one on my phone. It took 12 seconds. Whether that was because of my phone, the United app, or the internet connection is irrelevant. It would have held up boarding by 12 seconds had I tried to use it there.
And that's when you don't encounter a "sir, you'll need to turn the brightness up to full". I think the United app does this automatically, but AC boarding passes are just web links, and the browser doesn't know it's necessary.
I try to add flights to Flightdiary as soon as I land (or within a day), and I'll keep the boarding pass until miles post (unless it's a special one like EYW).