Southwest Airlines doing away with paper tickets

This is about tickets not boarding passes. Most everyone else eliminated paper tickets years ago in favor of etickets.

Ok I understand the airlines are keeping up with the times of technology. But most of the passengers phones use Droid or apple. I sure hope sea will remember us that have a windows system phone.

Tickets are now completely paperless. Boarding passes can be either or both, paper or paperless. It's not that hard to understand. Unless you can't understand the difference between a ticket and a boarding pass. At which point, you probably shouldn't be flying SWA to begin with.

I am sure they will pass all of the savings directly back to the customers~!

"It will also give the airline the same capability as other major U.S. airlines to both accept foreign dollars and recuperate quicker from storms."

What are "foreign dollars" supposed to be? I wonder if they are related to storms in some way...

JCS.

I have never owned any cell phone. I do own a laptop computer and does not use it's Wi-Fi functions. Just when needed.

Delta's app allows you to store your information and access your boarding pass in "offline mode", so as long as your battery works, the absence of a connection isn't a problem. Southwest's should do the same. A dead battery could be an issue, but you can always get a paper boarding pass as the kiosk.

I've been flying SWA since the days of the laminated paper numbered boarding cards, then the transition to the plastic boarding cards when you boarded in groups of 30. Back then, your checked bags got a ticket with the destination airport code and, if applicable, the transferring airport noted. Of course, this was when the turnaround time was 15-20 minutes between arrival and departure.

The implementation of the numbered boarding passes and then lining up in groups of 5 was a huge change along with the bar-coded bag tags.

I'm assuming this is just the next "big technological advancement" for SWA. The turnaround time is now about 50 minutes, so there needs to be ways to make up for lost revenue when there are idle assets sitting at the gate.

I print a paper ticket as a backup but between the phone and watch, my pass is always handy.