Word on the street has it that some FT'ers carry a bunch of the recent ones around in their wallets and THEN paste them to their bedroom wall! Talk about a frequent flying fetish!

I keep the interesting ones (like Ansett, SQ, TG, Aeroperu (very old), Indian Airlines) and only the most recent UA / DL etc.

Certain accountants say that you must keep the BP in order to prove that you took the flight (I've got plenty of BPs from flights I ended up not taking but no self respecting bean counter ever lets a fact stand in the way of paperwork.) They usually cite "IRS regulations require..." in much the same way that FAs quote "FAA regulations require..." when they're about to say something particularly nonsensical.

As a result some companies require that you submit them with your expense report.

Bureaucrats will eventually bring down this civilization under the weight of their paperwork...

I tear off the little stubby part and put that in my wallet until it posts, then toss it.

Came in handy just yesterday -- "Um, sir, how did you get here, I don't see that you boarded the outbound flight to get here."
"I stood by on an earlier flight and caught that. Here is the stub."

I usually keep mine until after tax time the following year since I usually have a good number of conferences and work-related trips to write off.
This means that in actuality they have a tendancy to hang around a couple years. The really odd thing is that my brain is so tuned to trivia that I can usually remember the trip by looking at the BP, even if it's something I do a lot like a transcon back east or Sh*ttle up to SEA or LAX.

JD

I keep them in two envelopes. One envelope is for them until they appear on my statement, then they are moved to the other.

The other envelope gets sealed and labeled. I keep it in my travel file.

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If its for work or domestic, I usually keep them for a year. If it was up to my DP, they are kept for an eternity along with bobby sherman tigerbeat magazines and the defranco family paraphenalia http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif.

For fun foreign trips, I usually put the ticket stuff, bp, record locator, etc, in a zip-lock bag with the rest of the receipts, train tickets and little odds and ends we picked up. I should label the outside (Paris-Mar 2001) so then I could refer to the bag for the name of the restaurant we ate etc.

I'm not sure about the wallpapering using boarding passes, but i can guarantee you that martha stewart will come up with a way to make lampshades out of boarding passes soon enough. its a good thing.

lala

That is interesting. I usually keep them in my wallet until I make sure they post and then I will tape them to a wall.

They also make excellent book marks. So you can figure out when I was last reading any book I haven't finished by flipping to the boarding pass.

Someone suggested that you keep a few boarding passes for use under certain circumstances while renting a car.

Say you flew in on Juniper Air but want a mileage bonus on Oak Air when you rent your car. Just display an Oak Air boarding pass in your pocket when you get your rental car, so the counter attendant won't bother to ask for proof you flew in on Oak.

I do not vouch for this method, do not even know if it is ever needed...I just read about it some time back in some forum on FT.

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I have over 1000 of them, and have them all in a huge frame in my living room with nice lights above them... Coming to think of it, it's pretty sad isn't it http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/biggrin.gif

Well, my employer requires original boarding passes to accompany my expense claim each month, so I don't keep them long at all. But then again, QF points are posted online before I am off the plane anyway. Then again, an AA trip 10 days ago has not appeared yet.

I usually don't keep them for long. After I get back from a trip I throw the boarding passes on my desk. The first Saturday after my trip (I do all the cleaning on Saturdays) I clean my desk and that's when I throw them out.

I've thought about putting them in a box and collecting every boarding pass, but I've already threw so many away that my collection wouldn't ever be complete.

Happy Day to All! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

Magdalena

Wow. I guess I try to keep them until the miles have posted. That is, if I can keep track of them that long. It seems there are so many more important things to think about than those little peaces of paper. With this statement I joined the anti-FF movement http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

No, seriously though, I do keep them until the miles post and then I tend to get rid of them... I guess I would enjoy a postcard-wall better than a boarding-pass wall, so does this make me a less worthy FlyerTalker? http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

I keep boarding passes until the miles post. Then, I keep one pass indicating the final destination from every trip. I also keep ticket stubs from events, metro passes, museums, etc.