Being a Canadian TA, I was issuing interisland tickets on AQ last night and made a reservation as per my clients preferences in my CRS. Things were going fine until I went to actually issue the tickets and found AQ doesn't have E-ticket capability, so had to issue paper and it was a serious snafu when the hardcopy ticket printer, which is used so infrequently, misprinted a series of tickets. So my question is does AQ offer E-ticket capability at all, and if not why not? You'd think the benefits of E-tickets on a smaller regional airline would be many versus the paper chase with the old fashioned hardcopy types. BTW, this wasn't some weird itinerary with 3 airlines and some not having interline E-ticket agreements, this was a straight-up HNL-OGG-LIH-HNL AQ only ticket.

I'm not an airline CEO and don't play one on TV, but with E-tickets becoming so commonplace, why not adopt the technology? Anyone know if it's coming?

Whenever I've bought AQ tix, either as codeshare segments on UA or standalone tickets purchased direct from AQ they've been e-tickets.

Yes, AQ does offer e-tickets for their passengers. They also have e-ticket agreements with other major airlines(UA, CO, DL, NW, HA,etc). I once was told that interisland travel that was included with a international ticket from Canada is issued on paper tickets, I do not know if this is correct though.

Aloha

My tickets on aloha have also been e-tickets.

Both Aloha and Hawaiian offer eTickets. In fact, since the elimination of paper coupons, eTickets are a large amount of the total number of tickets sold. I don't know the exact amount, but it's something like 80%.