Originally Posted by
givemewings
As a "trolley dolly" with them, yes exit rows are known but you're mainly checking for fliggt number date and destination on a boarding pass. That's all you usually get to see before most pax yank the card back... ideally yes check for rows and direct but they can slip by. That's why the exit row briefs exist.
At many airports in the USA, when they scan your boarding pass at the gate to board the plane, an alert goes off if you've been assigned a seat in the exit row. This is so the gate agent can assess whether the person assigned an exit row seat is a suitable 'able-bodied person' (or 'ABP' as they call them there). Perhaps Australia should do the same if they don't already have this technology? It would be very easy to program in to the boarding pass scanner software, I'd imagine.