Originally Posted by
gooselee
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Just a bit of trivia: All of this is carryover from olden times when you would be issued a paper ticket, and at check-in (physically at the airport, on the day of travel all control of tickets transferred to the airport) you would quite literally redeem a page/coupon from that paper ticket in order to receive your boarding pass. It was a physical trade of ticket coupon for boarding pass.
Yep. Carbon paper for 2nd and later coupons, you held on to them for your life, and if any IRROPS or changes, you could FIM (is that right?) to another airline with a little sticker.
E-tickets were out for 3 to 4 years before I started feeling comfortable NOT having a paper ticket on me.
And to apply for missed mileage, I think most airlines required the original boarding pass stub to be mailed in??
wow, i'm old