THE FUTURE OF PAPER

Files under Associated Press, digital | Sep 20th

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From Associated Press:

Next summer, paper airline tickets will go the way of vinyl records and rotary-dial phones: They won’t entirely disappear, but they’ll be hard to find.

IATA says paper tickets have fallen to less than 14 percent of the 400 million tickets it processes each year.

Paper tickets cost airlines $10 to $17, on average, compared with $1 or less for electronic tickets.

A fully electronic ticketing system will save the industry $3 billion a year, the IATA estimates.

The future is digital.

For travel.

For music.

For video.

For radio.

For news.

As Frank Zappa said:

“Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny”.