Ticketless Travel ?

[Canary42]

I've just had a promotional e-mail from Virgin promising .....

"Start saying goodbye paper tickets - eventually all you'll need is your phone!"

..... for the future. So presumably everyone will have to have a smart phone - I wonder if Beardie will be giving them away free.

[rockyracoon]

Yes, because we all know that nothing goes wrong with techonology, especially when you need it most!

[Zacs-Master]

It already works when flying. We've done it several times.

[Old_Geezer]

Another example of how companies push how they want to do something instead of presenting it as an option. It benefits the seller to the detriment of the spender's wealth. A phone is a phone not a wallet. Related added extras are fine but there are limits. Generally speaking no one needs another way to spend spend spend with no real time feedback of how extravagant they're being. Nothing says, "ease up this month", like a continually emptying wallet that you've been refilling.

[fiction-factory]

Can one not set a limit, O-G?

[Old_Geezer]

Never been attracted enough to the concept to find out. I just think waving your phone at something (or your debit card for that matter) in order to buy, is just to easy to lose track. I like physical cash I can see disappearing; or not hopefully.

[Old_Geezer]

too
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[malagabob]

Easyjet and others do it They passed the cost of paper printer ink time etc onto the customer a long time ago

[douglas9401]

Mr Branson also rambles on about space flight from time to time. Pronouncements from Virgin are just self promoting pap rather than statements of fact.
Try not to have nightmares.

[TheChair]

I always use my phone with the airlines that I use, but there is always a printed confirmation alternative.
I think you're getting your knickers in a twist over nothing.

[Prudie]

So do I The Chair, it's an option not an enforcement. For the handful of times I've flown Virgin I don't think I can fault them (unlike BA)