cwhath

Do y'all ever receive cardstock boarding passes anymore? I used to receive them out of Atlanta a lot but that has seemed to stop.

I know its a small thing but I like to keep them and they don't stay as long as some of my older cardstock ones from the 90's and early 2000's do.

DLASflyer

Occasionally.

jimmielin

Always flimsy receipt paper, even from agents… only time I’ve gotten card was at an international outstation. BOS, DCA, LGA, JFK, SEA, couldn’t ever get a card boarding pass

GagaPilot

The only domestic station I have received them at within the last few years is LAS.

Gertjaars

PT: Keep your cardstock BPs and sell them on ebay. People buy them just as they buy your sky medallion tags on ebay

flyerCO

Ask at gates in E terminal at ATL. It'll be on cardstock.

AFAIK all can print them. However they must tell system to print on the cardstock printer instead of recipet style printer..

FlyerWx

For a while I used to get receipt paper at RDU, but for the last couple months (including today) I've been getting self check in kiosks printing on cardstock

MCO Flyer

HNL has them at the gates.

ekozie

RDU pretty consistently has cardstock at the counter, I never use the kiosks so no idea about those.

Tried to see if they could print my BP for a VS flight the next morning on a separate ticket since ime JFK usually only has thermal paper and they were nice enough to try.

photojojo

It's funny you brought that up. There was another thread two weeks ago talking about being offered international upgrades at the gate for cash. I swore I had done this recently and I wanted to dig in to my receipts because if it was thermal paper, it was at the gate at CVG, and if it was the thicker stock, it meant I did it at the ticket counter. CVG and DAY ticket counters are the only two places I've still be getting the card stock (not from the kiosk, but the counter).

For what it's worth, I can't go look now because I have guests sleeping in that room. I never did follow up on that other thread.

PurdueFlyer

for most of these stations, its more about if DL utilizes common-use gates or if everything is Delta proprietary. Its not necessarily the whole station or nothing at all, but having common-use gates tends to have a greater chance that you'll see cardstock.

Vegas is entirely common use, and I think RDU is also, so you'll get the cardstock there. Some of the Seattle gates are "Port" gates (Port of Seattle) so you'll see cardstock there, but not at the other ones. The LAX gates at TBIT have cardstock, but not at Terminal 2. The new terminal at PHX has them. ATL F concourse gates has them, and a few of the E concourse gates (E34 & E36 I think) down where B6 and Spirit have a departure or two. The rest of E became all Delta gates once F opened, so they only have the flimsy paper now. I have even seen cardstock at PIT at 1 or 2 of the gates further down on D concourse that ACAA owns (not D76 or D78 though, which are the closest gates to the tram that DL uses exclusively).

KDCAflyer

One of the few things I like about AA is that they still use the old style card stock for paper boarding passes in many cases (mostly at outstations and when printing from the ticket counter). It's a cool throwback and reminds me of the era when tickets came in holders.

I've also seen some interesting card stock at international Delta outstations.

paterwdb

Received cardstock from TA at SAN yesterday.

ND76

I checked a bag at STL and got the old fashioned thick boarding cards. I like them better than the flimsy paper ones that come out of the kiosks where the ink smears.

flyerCO

The paper ones are inkless. They use thermal printing.