<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Originally posted by letiole:
... I will never get another eticket. They help airlines, they don't help passengers.</font>
They make for less waste, less paper, less time at checkin queues, less time to make changes, no stickers that need to be put on paper tickets, etc, etc. Seems to me that that helps everyone.
Maybe, occasionally, when you have to change carriers (which has happened to me once in about 300 flights), paper tickets can be useful.
At all other times, e-tickets are vastly better. In Australia, I can walk up to a Qantas checkin desk, hand them my FF card, hand over any checked baggage, and they give me a boarding pass. No need for rummaging for paper tickets, no need to worry about them taking the coupon for my next sector accidentally, no need to worry about misplacing my ticket, no reissue fees for lost tickets, etc.