The Airline Time Machine Podcast

Tickets, Please! - How Airline Tickets Have Evolved

Tim Haskin Season 2 Episode 3

Airline tickets have changed dramatically over the roughly hundred years of passenger air travel, transforming from a simple paper “proof of purchase” modeled on railroad passenger tickets, to today’s digital transaction and security records.

Join me for this look at airline ticket history, and the steps along the way that have been made to ensure that the correct passenger… is on the right airplane… of the proper airline!


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