MSPeconomist

I got a handwritten boarding pass from NW about ten years ago on a day when their computer system did a complete meltdown at MSP. They were also handwriting baggage tags and giving the carbon to the passenger as a receipt.

I remember the laminated reusable ones and also the system where there was a single seating map with little stickers that were stuck onto boarding passes by a single airport agent to assign seats.

It's been a while since GAs would tear off the stub (roughly one third) of the boarding passes or even since FAs used either the stubs or the paper boarding pass for coat checks in FC. I hated having the remember to demand my boarding pass back when my coat was returned at the end of the flight.