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> The other thing I would love to include is a halfway fold… I bet you have had this happen — You stick your boarding pass in your pocket, take it out at the ga
by rflrob 13y ago
> The other thing I would love to include is a halfway fold… I bet you have had this happen — You stick your boarding pass in your pocket, take it out at the gate and the stub is hanging off. You reached peak perforation too soon!
Why does your airline ticket need to be perforated at all? In the bad old days, the airline would keep one half and you'd keep the other, but I don't remember the last time I flew somewhere and they didn't scan my ticket either visually or with a magstripe.
- X-Cubed 13y agoThey still need it when they need to do a manual boarding. It's not very common, but if the computers are down and they still need to get people on the plane they'll collect the stubs and check people off on a clipboard.