Mrs Radeng found a real 'jobsworth' at portland last week.....But what puzzles me is why you get into a line something like 15 feet long, and your boarding card is inpsected at the entrance, half way along and at the end where you put your bag on the belt for X ray. Can someone explain why they feel it encessary to examine a boarding card so often? Is it a case that they are considered so unreliable that they need to check each others work? Or is it like the German railway official in Jerome K. Jerome's 'Three Men on the Bummel'?
Personally, I rather like the BA method where they check the boarding card as you get on the aircraft - having seen the case where someone had got through the gate for Stockholm when he was wanting to go to Berlin, and was picked up at the door.