Dave,
You obviously miss the point of Pprune. Its a place for people to express their generalisations, idiotic or not. Shame you don't get that.
Got to agree with Faire. Why bother with tickets or boarding cards at all. In fact the new cost cutting measure could be a credit card machine by the boarding gate. Just pop your card in, pay a fee and board the 'plane.
Sorry my wit isn't as sharp as yours Huck. I obviously don't have your natural advantages. BTW, aren't Halliburton pulling out of Iraq now its all hitting the fan over there? After being one of the first to make sure they got the prime contracts? But that would be going off topic.
