Airlines Make ‘Last Call’ For Paper Tickets

Travel Blog  •  Michael Yessis  •  08.28.07 | 10:30 AM ET

imageSo long paper airline tickets. By June 2008, you will be a collector’s item. So says the International Air Transportation Association. The group, which represents more than 200 airlines around the world, reported Monday that it placed its final order for 16.5 million paper tickets on behalf of its clients. 

“This is ‘last call’ for paper tickets,” Giovanni Bisignani, IATA’s director general and CEO, said according to a CBC report. The IATA says it issues 400 million airline tickets each year, and currently 16 percent of those are paper tickets. In the future, airlines will rely exclusively on e-tickets, a move that the IATA estimates will save 50,000 trees and $3 billion every year.

That’s good news, but I don’t think it’ll be enough to offset the problems airlines are facing when it comes to emissions and global warming.

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