Cool Thing to Do With Old Plane Tickets
 

All,

I just cleaned out my old office and found about 300 old airline tickets. I was wondering if anyone had any cool ways to display them, or something else to do with them. Probably 90 % of them are UA tickets, mainly to Houston and Calgary :), but there are some pretty cool ones too, like domestic china flights and what not. I also have about 400 old hotel keys I found too, but everyone thinks it makes me look like a pimp, so I'll keep those the way they are.

Tickets (i.E. papertickets) or boarding passes?

Most are boarding passes, but I have a few paper tickets too. Most are the entire boarding pass and not just the stub.

Buy a world map, put in pins for the locations and connect them with threads. Then pin the corresponding ticket and/or boarding passes to the right thread.

This way you could also pin the hotel keys on the map ;)

I shred them. ;)

How old school. I just delete them from my Apple Wallet. :D

Different theme but same idea - a friend took her dad's collection of old (and varied) wine labels and used them as a border in a half bath.

I have no idea if there are sealants or something, but long-term exposure to light will eventually fade the thermal printing. Just something to keep in mind when looking into projects.

I have a stack of tickets from the 1980's and 1990's. I am afraid to see if the red ink is faded. Most are computer printed on cardboard stock, however.

I wonder if it is too late to create a log of flights. I have one with 400 flights from the 1970's and mid 1980's. Then a stack of tickets to the mid-1990's. Then some good memory of flights but fuzzy memory from 1999-2005 maybe.

maybe you could glue it all to a hard shell luggage and lacquer or coat them on somehow

I've been bringing travel ephemera home for years (not my random ORD-LGA boarding passes, but BPs from unusual -- to me -- routes or airlines, tram tickets and pub coasters from obscure places, etc.) and this is exactly what we do -- stick them up surrounding our big world map with pins in it.

With that many boarding passes you probably have enough to use as wall paper in an office or spare bedroom.
I'd use maps as the base layer (these could be anything from touristy cartoon maps to reproductions of some olde historic ones. Depending on your taste.)
I'd bet the keys make an unusual sound and might make an interesting wind chime....

Use them to make paper airplanes and hang them from the ceiling/

Not jumping to any fast conclusions, trying to imply anything, but too much collecting of less useful stuff, nowadays borders to, or falls within the "hoarding" entity. As I've done that myself, saving not tickets/boarding passes, but hotel key cards, I made them usable for one night, when co-arranging a rather large party. At the entrance, everybody was invited to take a key card, which was the place card for the different dinner tables, as they were named after big hotel chains. Those unused were deposited in plastic recycling container.

As per the question in OP?
I join the shred-it team. :)