Cigarman,
While I agree with you on the CO 50% bonus issue, I do respectfully disagree with the points you made. Namely:
1. Paper tickets can be lost by the traveler, but e-tickets can be lost by an airline. And as I posted earlier, there is little recourse if that happens, even if yu have a million copies of a TSR.
2. Many airlines have begun to roll back the bonuses for e-ticket usage (e.g., from 3k/4k to as little as 500 mi.)
3. While it can be inconvenient to pick up or mail a ticket, compare that to the extreme inconvenience caused by a lost e-ticket reservation, which occurs more often than airlines would care to admit.