Originally Posted by
Evening Star
Yet it does beg the question as to what the gate staff were really doing, plus surely a headcount on the half full flight would have flagged an anomaly?
My immediate reaction is that I'm surprised that there weren't multiple instances of different pax claiming the same seat. Or if there were, that a simple check of boarding passes to resolve the problems didn't flag the problem up well before pushback.
Also, unless I'm missing something, aren't the boarding passes scanned, or at the very least manually checked at the gate?