Originally Posted by
NYCommuter
Also, no E-tickets was a real pain. I recall one of my relatives who lost the paper tickets needed for a trip back from a family vacation. She had to buy a new ticket at the airport, which couldn't have been inexpensive.
There's another one. Tickets versus boarding passes. A ticket got you a flight, but to get a seat on the plane (I remember in the 70's dropping people off at the airport and they actually let me and my brother onto the plane so long as we left before they departed!) you needed a boarding pass, which you only got at the airport.