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Planefxr From United States of America, joined Apr 2008, 443 posts, RR: 0
Posted (4 years 10 months 1 week 6 days 1 hour ago) and read 2062 times:

Looks like five airlines have found another revenue stream.

http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Stor...9CCC-874B2EE202D1%7d&siteid=yhoof2

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Contrails From United States of America, joined Oct 2000, 1818 posts, RR: 0
Reply 1, posted (4 years 10 months 1 week 6 days 1 hour ago) and read 2049 times:

I heard this on the news this morning. I guess it's better than pay toilets.

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Ikramerica From United States of America, joined exactly 8 years ago today! , 21029 posts, RR: 60
Reply 2, posted (4 years 10 months 1 week 6 days 1 hour ago) and read 2049 times:

Quoting Planefxr (Thread starter):
Looks like five airlines have found another revenue stream.

Concert promoters and some movie theaters and sports teams have been doing this for a long time. A long time…

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Planefxr From United States of America, joined Apr 2008, 443 posts, RR: 0
Reply 3, posted (4 years 10 months 1 week 6 days 1 hour ago) and read 1983 times:

Quoting Contrails (Reply 1):
I heard this on the news this morning. I guess it's better than pay toilets.

Quoting Ikramerica (Reply 2):
Concert promoters and some movie theaters and sports teams have been doing this for a long time. A long time…

I think it is a good idea, I doubt it will offend passengers, and every cent of revenue these days is definately welcome.

Birdwatching From United States of America, joined Sep 2003, 3573 posts, RR: 52
Reply 4, posted (4 years 10 months 1 week 6 days 1 hour ago) and read 1973 times:

What's new about this? I've seen ads on the back of boarding passes for years. I'd have to check which airlines when I get home, but the ones I can remember are Aerolineas Argentinas and Germanwings.
Will try to post a photo later.

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Nighthawk From UK - Scotland, joined Sep 2001, 4989 posts, RR: 38
Reply 5, posted (4 years 10 months 1 week 6 days 1 hour ago) and read 1957 times:

Quoting Birdwatching (Reply 4):
What's new about this? I've seen ads on the back of boarding passes for years. I'd have to check which airlines when I get home, but the ones I can remember are Aerolineas Argentinas and Germanwings.
Will try to post a photo later.

I just flew back from Kiev with KLM, handled by swissport, and there was an advert for rental cars on the back of the boarding pass. First time ive noticed it however.

That'll teach you

48V From United States of America, joined Sep 2001, 60 posts, RR: 0
Reply 6, posted (4 years 10 months 1 week 5 days 21 hours ago) and read 1796 times:

Airlines have been putting ads on ticket jackets since before deregulation. This doesn't seem very different to me.

Frontierflyer From United States of America, joined Aug 2007, 207 posts, RR: 1
Reply 7, posted (4 years 10 months 1 week 5 days 20 hours ago) and read 1726 times:

Delta airlines just got rid of the ticket jackets recently right? They should go the way of western pacific and paint ads on jets.

BananaBoY From United Kingdom, joined Oct 2004, 1558 posts, RR: 26
Reply 8, posted (4 years 10 months 1 week 5 days 19 hours ago) and read 1683 times:

United also for quite a while had advertisments for NCL America on the back of their baggage tags (the ones applied by check in staff). Seems like a good idea to me.

Mark

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Planefxr From United States of America, joined Apr 2008, 443 posts, RR: 0
Reply 9, posted (4 years 10 months 1 week 5 days 19 hours ago) and read 1672 times:

Quoting Birdwatching (Reply 4):
What's new about this? I've seen ads on the back of boarding passes for years. I'd have to check which airlines when I get home, but the ones I can remember are Aerolineas Argentinas and Germanwings.

It is new to U.S. airlines.

YOWza From Canada, joined Jul 2005, 4781 posts, RR: 17
Reply 10, posted (4 years 10 months 1 week 5 days 19 hours ago) and read 1640 times:

I could be wrong, but has this not been going on for YEARS. I can recall Hertz Ads on my KLM boarding passes from waaaaay back in the day.

Beyond that, in an age of online check-ins where people print their own passes surely the potential is not that great.

YOWza

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Cactus742 From United States of America, joined Nov 2006, 226 posts, RR: 0
Reply 11, posted (4 years 10 months 1 week 5 days 19 hours ago) and read 1629 times:

As of about four years ago, United had ads for their Mileage Plus Visa on the back of boarding passes. What's the big deal?

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GBan From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 12, posted (4 years 10 months 1 week 5 days 9 hours ago) and read 1489 times:

Strange that some airlines seem to discover their ability to print ads on boarding passes at a time where other airlines try to get rid of boarding passes:

http://www.lufthansa.com/online/port...ckin?l=en&nodeid=2144600&cid=18002

Dalavia From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 398 posts, RR: 1
Reply 13, posted (4 years 10 months 1 week 5 days 8 hours ago) and read 1459 times:

It has been done for many years in China.

I guess that's what they refer to when they talk about "socialism with Chinese characteristics".

LH526 From Germany, joined Aug 2000, 2257 posts, RR: 17
Reply 14, posted (4 years 10 months 1 week 5 days 8 hours ago) and read 1449 times:

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Quoting Dalavia (Reply 13):
It has been done for many years in China.

They even printed ads on the back of their safetycards.

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Sawb1980 From United States of America, joined Jul 2008, 24 posts, RR: 0
Reply 15, posted (4 years 10 months 1 week 5 days 7 hours ago) and read 1428 times:

Quoting Cactus742 (Reply 11):
As of about four years ago, United had ads for their Mileage Plus Visa on the back of boarding passes. What's the big deal?

I think they still do. As recent as May on my last flight, the advertisement for their VISA card was still there.

AIR757200 From United States of America, joined Jul 2000, 1579 posts, RR: 8
Reply 16, posted (4 years 10 months 1 week 5 days 5 hours ago) and read 1344 times:

AA Self-Service boarding passes for a while had Papa Romano's (or Papa John's?) pizza ads on the back of them (the stub part was also a coupon for free order of breadsticks); but lately, it's now advertising online flight status "Get the 411 on your 737!".. or something like that.

AA ticket jackets also had a hotels.com ad on the backside (as did many other US airlines) but now are AA.com related marketing item.

Babybus From United Kingdom, joined Dec 2003, 3512 posts, RR: 6
Reply 17, posted (4 years 10 months 1 week 5 days 4 hours ago) and read 1330 times:

If I remember correctly SV have adverts on the back of their boarding passes.

Now that pax can print off their own passes at home I hope they won't have to see adverts on these too. I'll be putting in a bill for ink to the airline concerned if so. Angry

and with that..cabin crew, seats for landing please.

Allrite From Australia, joined Aug 2007, 1409 posts, RR: 3
Reply 18, posted (4 years 10 months 1 week 5 days 4 hours ago) and read 1316 times:

On the back of an Ansett boarding pass in January 1991. An advert for Bull Computers. You can just make it out on the scanned boarding pass below (reversed, of course). Not going to the effort to scan it again right now. Smile

http://lh4.ggpht.com/allrong/R-8-OS3fx_I/AAAAAAAAWpA/tZz1EM9Oz2w/s800/ansett-nsss003.jpg

It was just a Chaser-style prank!

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