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Lux Flyer
Though that eTicket limitation was carried over to make conversion from paper to eTicket and vice-versa compatible as when eTicket initially came out you still had to support both, and what easier way to do that then make it the same structure.
Fair point. I am by no means a ticketing person but my understanding was that the e-ticket processing path split was very early in the applications and system processing of e-tickets (original ticketing, changes / refunds, revenue accounting and interline settlement etc.) and paper tickets had very little overlap and the limitations of paper tickets carried forward to e-tickets due to reducing the complexity of creating the e-ticket. And take that with a grain of salt as it was a long time ago (and to keep UA centric - I believe that CO was the first airline that required 100% interline e-tickets. )