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Long Train Runnin Sep 12, 2022 8:56 am


Originally Posted by CappuccinoAddict (Post 34592872)
I appreciate that Lufthansa still has a nice boarding pass jacket when flying in F. Does any other airline still do that?

Qatar gives you a ticket jacket when you fly J. It has cut outs in it to show gate assignments/seats etc.

enviroian Sep 12, 2022 9:03 am

Wouldn't be environmentally friendly in today's world.

Antarius Sep 12, 2022 9:04 am


Originally Posted by QPProletarian (Post 34592937)
Another inconsequential problem, but still... One of my biggest gripes is when the Airlines want to rip off the main part of the boarding pass and leave you with the tiny stub. I used to keep a mobile boarding pass to avoid this on BA, but seems TK are horrendous offenders. Mobile pass mostly worked for them too.

A lot of the Asian airlines insist on doing this still. I collect my cardstock BPs and it drives me nuts.

Usually I pretend I lost mine so they reprint me a copy that I give them to tear

EricH Sep 12, 2022 9:21 am

About a week or two ago, there was a thread (it may have been in the UA forum) where someone couldn't get through security because the desk at an outstation ran out of paper to print boarding passes. Be careful what you wish for.

Antarius Sep 12, 2022 9:22 am


Originally Posted by EricH (Post 34593026)
About a week or two ago, there was a thread (it may have been in the UA forum) where someone couldn't get through security because the desk at an outstation ran out of paper to print boarding passes. Be careful what you wish for.

That was here: https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/amer...r-airline.html

OskiBear Sep 12, 2022 9:52 am


Originally Posted by QPProletarian (Post 34592937)
Another inconsequential problem, but still... One of my biggest gripes is when the Airlines want to rip off the main part of the boarding pass and leave you with the tiny stub. I used to keep a mobile boarding pass to avoid this on BA, but seems TK are horrendous offenders. Mobile pass mostly worked for them too.

Southwest used to take the entire BP upon boarding (why not, since didn't have seat assignments). I got burned once by this b/c you need to present a same-day boarding at Park City to get a free 1/2 day lift ticket. Learned my lesson and printed a second copy.

Nowadays, for most of my flights, I save a PDF copy of the boarding pass when checking in online so I can have something available in case I need to claim miscredited mileage.

AADFW Sep 12, 2022 10:04 am


Originally Posted by fly747first (Post 34592460)
AA never had elegant ticket jackets. However, US Airways had beautiful ones for First Class and Envoy Class.

Not true. They had silver "flagship" ticket jackets for several years in the early 1990s. Very substantial and elegant.

JJeffrey Sep 12, 2022 10:43 am

I have a decent nostAAlgia box going...
https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...c0cf47c86e.jpg

ceieoc Sep 12, 2022 10:51 am

I recommend passengers stuff their cell phones with electronic boarding pass inside of a discarded ticket jacket they saved from 2005.

fly747first Sep 12, 2022 12:41 pm


Originally Posted by AADFW (Post 34593177)
Not true. They had silver "flagship" ticket jackets for several years in the early 1990s. Very substantial and elegant.

Obviously we have very different definitions of "elegant." Compared to other airlines, I just never found the AA ones to be elegant at all and in the 90s, AA had the most hideous livery ever consisting of basically bare metal with three stripes.

PresRDC Sep 12, 2022 12:54 pm


Originally Posted by JJeffrey (Post 34593295)
I have a decent nostAAlgia box going...
https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...c0cf47c86e.jpg

These were definitely the ones in use in the early 2000s. Probably last got one around 2005.

ETA: yours are quite pristine. Mine are all beat up because I continued to use them well into the 2010s.

fly747first Sep 12, 2022 1:33 pm


Originally Posted by PresRDC (Post 34593832)
These were definitely the ones in use in the early 2000s. Probably last got one around 2005.

ETA: yours are quite pristine. Mine are all beat up because I continued to use them well into the 2010s.

Lots of them for sale on ebay if you guys want more, haha

American Airlines 2003 Ticket Jacket Collectible | eBay

theshaun Sep 12, 2022 4:04 pm

Ticket jackets are available in the American Way magazine in your seat front pocket

bpe Sep 13, 2022 5:43 am

I don't think I've seen an airline one in over a decade, but I've taken and kept many train ticket ones from JR. (I'm sure I have some more somewhere, these were just nearby at my desk).

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...6d3f87e1d9.jpg

diburning Sep 13, 2022 7:14 am

The Air Canada Concierge Office handed me my paper boarding passes in a stationery envelope, does that count?


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