Aer Lingus Ticket

"Remember that precious, neat booklet of pages - those flimsy leaves loaded with promise? The airline ticket!  the relevant pages were detached, placed in a boarding pass - all safely on your way. Bon voyage! A bit of a stretch from printing your own boarding card today with dodgy toner and trying to make sure that the barcode is black enough to pass the scanner - never mind the scramble and chicanery needed to get the seat you want! The old airline ticket, with its triplicated sheets and carbon paper and codes that could have been hieroglyphics tucked in a wallet from the travel agent, came from a pre-budget airline era. A time when air travel was still unusual, a special occasion, and passengers were special too, and weren't expected to do half the work. "