It saves airlines the cost of printing and delivering tickets ... Though customers can request paper tickets at no extra charge, most have followed the carriers’ e-ticket encouragement.

Ticket printers must be kept in a locked room. Although agents found paper tickets cumbersome and inefficient, a number of air travelers were loath to say goodbye to them when e-tickets were ...

As for printing out my ticket, don't confuse that ... travel details in one easy-to-find place. Air travel is already stressful enough, and with a paper ticket in my hand, I have one thing less ...

“Ticket printers will not ... And it will call on member airlines to communicate with agents, advising passengers of the benefits of electronic tickets over paper documents.

The global airlines body IATA said on Monday it had placed its last order for paper tickets, clearing the way for air travel to be based entirely on electronic ticketing from June 1 next year. IE ...

Listener and reader Geoffrey Newton from Falls Church, Virginia, asks: Why do airlines still use dot matrix printers ... “press the ribbon into the paper,” which releases ink.

Magnetic stripe boarding passes require special printers located in the airport ... the years and whenever I see the pieces of paper or airline tickets it transports me back to that time and ...