Old-Time Plane Ticket

We found this plane ticket in a box of stuff I had tucked away when my brother Jody & I moved back to Florida from Arizona.

You know, I don't think Continental Airlines is still in business... And actually, after doing an online search, I found out that United Airlines did a stock swap with Continental and that dissolved the name, so they are no longer in business. This next image shows that the plane ticket was placed in a protective sleeve and then the checked baggage card was placed on the right. You can see Jody had signed it on the bottom of the card. Now you just get a sticker to show they took your bags, and you can put it... well... wherever, because the ticket sleeves are no longer provided by the airlines.

The gate agent even wrote the flight, gate and seat info on the back of the sleeve, so we would know where to go to board the plane(s) and sit in our assigned seat. Now you have to look for your next connecting flight on a giant TV screen when your first plane lands because the gate could have been changed like some kind of crazy musical chairs game played with aircraft as the chairs... Look at the red copy-ink that was used. And this was issued May 15th, 1985 when Jody flew with me and Luann back to Arizona.

Things sure have changed, haven't they?