More and more airlines these days require you to print your own boarding pass. And no, it’s not for our convenience but for the purpose of the airline saving some money. Since they have pushed that step of the boarding process onto the traveler here is a suggestion to make it easier, read less costly, for that same traveler.

Please create the boarding pass with minimum writing and no ads, fancy graphics or color at all. Just print the minimum information. Some airlines, like Virgin America print these huge red squares on their boarding passes requiring us to use up an ink cartridge to print two passes. Where is the environmental sense in this anyways. They are not the only culprits. Some companies make you print four pages for one simple boarding pass. I know for a fact that such technology exists to place multiple images on one piece of paper.

Why waste ink, paper and the traveler’s hard earned cash. Make it a bare bones printout … or even better let those that want it store the boarding pass info on their phone. No harm there … So there’s my million dollar suggestion …