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[IMA_FARANG]

  This may be a little off-topic...but I think not very much.
There are at least two advantages of always keeping your boarding pass after arrival.
For one, if after you exit the plane, you suddenly realise a coat or a small bag was left behind...for security reasons you will NOT be allowed to go back into the aircraft and pick up that item you left behind. if you have your boarding pass however, there will be an airline staff person who you can ask for help. They will contact the cabin staff, give them your seat number and what item to look for, and often someone will arrive in a few minutes with that item for you.
Secondly, even after you leave the airport, if for some reason you lose your return ticket...the local airline office can use that boarding pass to access your flight info from the airline computer system....and thus verify that you did indeed purchase a return ticket. They may charge you a fee to re-issue that ticket...but that's better than having to buy a new return ticket.

[ravip]

I too experienced this during my visit to BKK in December 2011 - I was on a flight CMB-BKK-HKG

[cassde]

Reference the telephone number on the TM6, I use Express Visas to do my 909 day 'visa run' and they always insist on the number being written on the form. Maybe it's an unwritten requirement.

[cassde]

sorry I meant 90 day!

[dantilley]

IMA_FARANG, on 2012-01-11 10:48:57, said:

Secondly, even after you leave the airport, if for some reason you lose your return ticket...the local airline office can use that boarding pass to access your flight info from the airline computer system....and thus verify that you did indeed purchase a return ticket. They may charge you a fee to re-issue that ticket...but that's better than having to buy a new return ticket.

Don't most airlines not require tickets these days anyway? Usually your passport is all you need to check-in.

[geriatrickid]

dantilley, on 2012-01-07 07:12:47, said:

kwonitoy, on 2012-01-06 19:05:07, said:

In each instance I found out latter that there was a person of interest on the plane.

If that was the case, they could just look on the passenger manifest and find out exactly where that person was sitting and take them straight off the plane before anyone disembarked.

People often change seats  on planes and the manifest then becomes useless in that regard.

[dantilley]

geriatrickid, on 2012-01-22 13:36:26, said:

People often change seats  on planes and the manifest then becomes useless in that regard.

As mentioned earlier, usually only a few people per flight switch seats so it's still easy enough to keep track of everyone.

[tombkk]

dantilley, on 2012-01-22 12:12:52, said:

IMA_FARANG, on 2012-01-11 10:48:57, said:

Secondly, even after you leave the airport, if for some reason you lose your return ticket...the local airline office can use that boarding pass to access your flight info from the airline computer system....and thus verify that you did indeed purchase a return ticket. They may charge you a fee to re-issue that ticket...but that's better than having to buy a new return ticket.

Don't most airlines not require tickets these days anyway? Usually your passport is all you need to check-in.

In my experience, most airlines now use e-tickets, so there would not be a fee to re-issue. Yes, the passport is enough to check in, but I had the check-in lady ask me once whether she can see the ticket. It turned out that I had booked another flight than the one I was trying to check in for, that's why she couldn't find my name in the computer. She quickly changed my booking to that flight.