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US Rolls-out New Ticket Jacket

Cha747 From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 763 posts, RR: 7
Posted (8 years 5 months 5 days 21 hours ago) and read 2591 times:

I'm the first to stand-up for US but I experienced something that tells me I should REALLY rethink my loyalty. My wife and I were flying the past week from CHA-CLT-PHL. CHA (being a tiny station) doesn't have kiosks and for some reason web check-in wouldn't let me check-in and print boarding passes online, so I got the the counter to get my boarding passes.

The CSA printed my boarding passes and stapled them to a piece of paper. The guy then meticulously folded the paper so it looked like a jacket. On one side it had all the stadard regs (limited liability, baggage policy, Warsaw Convention stuff, yadda yadda yadda) and the other side had my boarding passes stapled to it.

It looked VERY cheap. I would have preferred no jacket at all. Are they through printing US ticket jackets or was CHA just out of them?

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UALGSO From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 1, posted (8 years 5 months 5 days 8 hours ago) and read 2361 times:

I have seen the same thing here in GSO. I was told by a US employee that the company that produces the tkt jackets will not produce anymore until US is out of BK. So instead US is printing all the regulations and rules that are normally on the tkt jackets on sheets of paper and having the agents hand them to pax.

Uswyjer From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 2, posted (8 years 5 months 5 days 8 hours ago) and read 2312 times:

In Charlotte they aren't using ticket jackets anymore, you just get the boarding passes. But that isn't something that is going to make me rethink my loyalty, if it helps them save a few dollars, more power to US; now if they start handwriting the boarding passes a la Tower Air, then that will be something else.

EA CO AS From United States of America, joined Nov 2001, 12561 posts, RR: 64
Reply 3, posted (8 years 5 months 5 days 8 hours ago) and read 2300 times:

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Any new ticket jackets for US Airways should have hourglasses on them with sand slowly trickling out... Big grin

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SHUPirate1 From United States of America, joined Sep 2003, 3661 posts, RR: 18
Reply 4, posted (8 years 5 months 5 days 8 hours ago) and read 2295 times:

Interesting, I flew US Airways last Wednesday (LGA-PHL-PBI) and I was given the same standard ticket jacket they have been using since I started flying on the carrier regularly.

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F9Animal From United States of America, joined Dec 2004, 4736 posts, RR: 30
Reply 5, posted (8 years 5 months 5 days 7 hours ago) and read 2178 times:

Supplies may have been running short. If it is because they are trying to save money, I give them credit for it!

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Njdevilsin03 From United States of America, joined Apr 2004, 713 posts, RR: 0
Reply 6, posted (8 years 5 months 4 days 20 hours ago) and read 1875 times:

We'll I can confirm PHL and FLL doesn't have them. Got just the boarding passes at both airports.

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A330323X From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 3039 posts, RR: 47
Reply 7, posted (8 years 5 months 4 days 20 hours ago) and read 1821 times:

PIT doesn't have them either.

I will note, however, that US ran out of ticket jackets a few years ago as well.

I'm the expert on here on two things, neither of which I care about much anymore.

Contrails From United States of America, joined Oct 2000, 1818 posts, RR: 0
Reply 8, posted (8 years 5 months 4 days 12 hours ago) and read 1724 times:

No disrespect intended, but why do you determine loyalty based on ticket jackets? They, like so many things in commercial aviation today, will probably disappear in a few more years. Any why should anyone care if US wants to save some money by using a cheap facisimilie of a jacket?

I suspect in the end it won't matter anyway. I doubt now that US will be around past mid-January, if they can make it that far. So you might as well start looking for another carrier. How many are there at CHA?

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Supa7E7 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 9, posted (8 years 5 months 4 days 11 hours ago) and read 1674 times:

Contrails, you will of course own up to that statement in 3-4 weeks, right? Care to make a friendly wager?

Usairways16bwi From United States of America, joined May 2004, 1003 posts, RR: 4
Reply 10, posted (8 years 5 months 4 days 9 hours ago) and read 1602 times:

if they are running out of ticket jackets, than they must be selling alot of tickets!? so that may be a good thing

Nlink From United States of America, joined Nov 2003, 313 posts, RR: 0
Reply 11, posted (8 years 5 months 4 days 9 hours ago) and read 1587 times:

A couple other major airlines are talking about getting rid of them for domestic flights and only use them for intl pax very soon.

Contrails From United States of America, joined Oct 2000, 1818 posts, RR: 0
Reply 12, posted (8 years 5 months 4 days 7 hours ago) and read 1515 times:

Supa7E7, if I am wrong I will certainly own up to it. It is my sincere hope that I am wrong and that US has a long and happy future.

As for a wager, I'm cashing in my US miles because I wasn't willing to bet on being wrong.

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LegendDC9 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 13, posted (8 years 5 months 4 days 7 hours ago) and read 1478 times:

The new jackets have a little pouch in the front for donations.

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