Paper airline tickets will remain despite IATA best efforts

It may surprise you to learn that of the 400 million airline tickets issued by members of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), only 64 million of them are actually printed on paper. It seems that most of the world has already been bitten by the e-ticketing bug, which is a good thing. Not least because IATA has just placed its very last order for some 16.5 million paper tickets as it gets ready to switch over to a completely paper free, e-tickets only, system from June 2008.