@Carneypatrick wrote: Just wondering why the gate agents stopped taking the boarding pass after it was read by the bar code scanner. It would be great if they had a barrel to dispose the boarding pass afterwards. Clean paper products on-board can be recycled, give it to the FA once you are settled. I second the opinion that you might as well hold onto it through the end of your flight though. Why they stopped taking it - some business travelers need it as proof that they actually traveled, and they didn't need it for any purpose I think it was collected mainly for convenience of not having pieces of paper litter the airplane more than any operational cross-check. Also in the rare occasion that a flight would be boarded and then be delayed in a way that everyone was sent back to the concourse, no one would have boarding passes. And it was obviously not necessary with so many people using electronic passes anyway.
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