Qantas and Jetstar axes paper boarding passes

According to news, Qantas and Jetstar is going to ditch paper boarding passes to go digital.

I think its more they have given the option to go digital?

They’ll encourage people to use digital boarding passes where possible. They’re not axing paper boarding passes

Report says they will be going purely digital this year. Both Qantas and Jetstar

Do we 'really' need to axe paper boarding passes!!!! I'm still in shock over the straws without plastic covers....

I hope they have a backup in place where physical check-in counters can still offer paper boarding passes.

With the current amount of fumbling with phones, an entirely digital boarding process could extend into a long time! How often has someone in front of you 'lost' the boarding pass as the phone went dark while they waited... precipitating waking up the phone, getting their fingerprint in the right place while juggling bags, then scrolling and faffing.

I'm not sure how workable getting rid of paper boarding passes is. Firstly there would be a sizable amount of people who'd either have their phone battery dead, not installed the qantas app and other issues.

They will still have to have paper for different occaions, children unaccompanied, prisoners under transit, those sorts of things and also times when the scanners etc simply don’t work, we have all stood there before whilst the scanner just doesn’t work and they have to hand out boarding passes, also late seat changes at the gate, you are always given a boarding pass for that.

Seems to me that boarding time increases for every passenger not using a paper boarding pass. Boarding (or at least getting through the gate) was much faster when everyone used the magnetic strip boarding passes.

It's interesting that the news headlines reflect just this one thing, as the announcement was about a reduction in waste... This includes boarding passes, but also single use plastics, removing physical frequent flyer cards, composting food waste etc etc.

No need for panic or petitions. Qantas intend "removing unnecessary paper, such as boarding passes and operational manuals, by going digital". The key word being "unnecessary", so if a boarding pass is necessary for whatever reason then you'll still get one.