There’s a commercial, I think it’s for insurance and a guy wants to teach people how not to be their parents. In the airport, he says “show me your tickets” and the people he’s teaching hold up paper tickets. He says “We’re off to a horrible start.”
Really? I’ve seen the boarding line get held up more often by a phone ticket. Thoughts?
There’s a difference between paper tickets and paper boarding passes.
I haven’t used a paper ticket, or even a printed one in probably a dozen years. But I’ll print out a boarding pass at the check-in kiosk.
Interesting, yes, of course, I believe he says “ticket.”
Yes, he’s says “ticket”.
I find those commercials irritating, condescending, and stereotyping.
They must have become obsolete long ago because I’ve never even seen one. I always print out 2 copies of my boarding pass and have it sent to my phone as well.
They’re a 20th Century thing.
I print one paper copy of my boarding pass (tucked into the passport) and have 2 copies on my phone, one in the ‘wallet’ and one screen shot of the wallet, in case I have a connectivity or app problem.
This is what I do. I have to show my passport as ID at pretty much every stage that I have to show my boarding pass, so why not have it all in one spot?
Jeez, you people are so young.
I tend to get paper boarding passes, just in case, and when I check my bags in at the kiosk in SW Airlines printing them is simple.
Paper tickets, on the other hand, were awful. First you had to get them, which involved a trip to a travel agent or an airport or having them delivered. I remember having to go to a United store in Palo Alto to get some once.
Then you had to remember to bring them. Losing tickets would be a big deal. You can’t lose modern electronic tickets.
I don’t know if airlines even have printed tickets any more.Getting rid of them is one of the few things that is better with air travel today.
I don’t get a paper boarding pass, but I do take a screenshot of my e-pass. I once had a flight where the departure was delayed at the last minute. An hour after the originally scheduled departure time, my e-pass would no longer come up on my phone, so I had to ask the gate agent for a paper pass. Never again.
Paper tickets, wow … I totally forgot about those. I’m not sure when I last use an actual paper ticket. My guess is early 2000s.
And remember Federal Express travelers cheques? I last traveled with those in 1996.
I just do boarding pass on the phone today or sometimes I pick up a boarding pass from the self service kiosk. No sense in wasting my own paper and ink.
American Express travelers checks
“Don’t leave home without them!”
StG
Of course. Gotta get that morning cuppa joe. At least I remembered spelling “cheques” the British way that American Express did for some reason (irony?)
I think they’re hilarious. “Joaquin!” gets me every time.
Let’s face it. The average user of SDMB is exactly who they’re mocking.
No mussin’, no fussin’, no cussin’.
That’s because many users of the SDMB are someone’s parents.
Don’t forget, the activities mocked in those commercials aren’t bad, they’re just evidence that we’re turning into our parents.
Since I’m in the midst of doing just that, I think they’re hilarious, and we need more of them.
Oh, just remembered a listing (I almost said “classified ad”) on NextDoor where a middle-aged guy titled it “Keep Me From Turning Into My Parents!” followed by “Please take this Live, Laugh, Love plaque off my hands.”
I love these commercials, too. Taking those 15 cushions off that couch. Plus the first commercial had that fake book cover.
I always get two boarding passes printed; drops my stress level like crazy.