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Old Feb 12, 2026 | 6:27 pm
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Originally Posted by Mwenenzi
Those of us who remember paper carbon copy airline tickets are of a certain age!
We certainly are. Reminiscing . . . .

My first OWE was an AONE4, ex-MRU. That was back when the ticket had to be purchased in the origin country of your first flight, and Mauritius was the cheapest originating country. I bought the ticket from the local BA ticket office in Mauritius. It was my first time in the nose of a 747, first time in international F. That first flight was BA to LHR. The BA staff in Mauritius were all lovely to deal with on the phone, but didn't really understand the rules and cared even less about trying to follow them, so you could pretty much get them to do whatever you wanted. After a few years I moved on to Mindpearl in South Africa (can't remember why). Both BA and Mindpearl shipped the paper tickets to me in Boston by DHL.

I remember buying a couple of tickets from the Flight Centre in Australia. In particular, when OneWorld had the 10% off sale for the 10th year anniversary, I did an AONE5 with a friend where the entire trip was an MR, bought that one from Flight Centre. We never stayed in a city for more than 24 hours, except SEA where I had a hospital appointment, and SIN where we stopped for something like 26 hours.

Since then, I've only used the AA RTW Desk.
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