Southwest is eliminating paper ticket jackets
Flying Southwest this summer and like to stash your boarding pass in those colorful paper holders they hand out at the airport? You'll have to BYOBP holder beginning June 1. Ticket jackets, as the document holders are called, are going the way of peanuts on Southwest. The airline, which doles out about 22 million ticketjackets a year, is eliminating them to "reduce waste, protect our environment, use less paper and ultimately become a greener company," spokesman Dan Landson said. Southwest is the last major US airline to ditch the ticket jackets, a relic from an era when airlines issued paper tickets. Most tickets are now electronic, and boarding passes have moved that way, too. Travellers who don't fly Southwest, the nation's largest domestic carrier, may not even know they still exist.<br/>
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Southwest is eliminating paper ticket jackets
Flying Southwest this summer and like to stash your boarding pass in those colorful paper holders they hand out at the airport? You'll have to BYOBP holder beginning June 1. Ticket jackets, as the document holders are called, are going the way of peanuts on Southwest. The airline, which doles out about 22 million ticketjackets a year, is eliminating them to "reduce waste, protect our environment, use less paper and ultimately become a greener company," spokesman Dan Landson said. Southwest is the last major US airline to ditch the ticket jackets, a relic from an era when airlines issued paper tickets. Most tickets are now electronic, and boarding passes have moved that way, too. Travellers who don't fly Southwest, the nation's largest domestic carrier, may not even know they still exist.<br/>
