ladelfina
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I've been using e-tickets for years and really enjoy the convenience. It looks like as of next year paper tickets will be phased out entirely:
http://beta.cnn.com/2007/TRAVEL/08/31/biztrav.paperless/index.html
With about 400 million tickets issued annually, my question is this:
WHY is every Itinerary/E-ticket at least 2 pages long? And when you print it out you end up cutting stuff off in the middle unless you waste time futzing with your printer settings?
400 million sheets of letter-sized paper (minimum) extra per year is a LOT.
Maybe if they can't fit everything, they could at least break it up so the salient stuff is on page 1, and make better use of the wasted space taken up by the side margin, to say nothing of the useless header stuff. I'm always worried about losing that stapled second sheet.. (oh yeh.. 400 million staples per year, too). Travelocity and Expedia equally guilty.
http://beta.cnn.com/2007/TRAVEL/08/31/biztrav.paperless/index.html
With about 400 million tickets issued annually, my question is this:
WHY is every Itinerary/E-ticket at least 2 pages long? And when you print it out you end up cutting stuff off in the middle unless you waste time futzing with your printer settings?
400 million sheets of letter-sized paper (minimum) extra per year is a LOT.
Maybe if they can't fit everything, they could at least break it up so the salient stuff is on page 1, and make better use of the wasted space taken up by the side margin, to say nothing of the useless header stuff. I'm always worried about losing that stapled second sheet.. (oh yeh.. 400 million staples per year, too). Travelocity and Expedia equally guilty.