Since these are award tickets rather than paid tickets, the paper flight coupons would be of little value trying to get on another airline, in the event your flights were delayed or cancelled. No airline will aceept an award ticket of another airline unless the issuing airline has endorsed the ticket,i.e., agreed to pay the 2nd airline - for the flight, a highly unlikely event.

So really the only advantage of a paper ticket in this case is if the computer crashed and Continental somehow lost all account of your reservation. But even then, the e-ticket shows an itinerary and a record locator that proves you had a reservation.

[This message has been edited by JerryFF (edited 07-29-2000).]