if this is a permanent thing, this is really a pity, they seem again to be another cost cutting measure (despite reading on CX secret that they have a stash of the old boarding pass in the warehouse - as I understood from the translation).
On the other hand, it seems that there is some OW directive for all OW airlines to cut cost....BA, has the same horrible quality BP, IB, AY, AB, AA close to, etc..
I am a BP collector, so another loss for me...again these useless white BP with black ink.
Still hoping that this is a temporarily situation due to the change of KA to CX...
Cheers!