In my airline, 9 out of 10 pax have their boarding passes ready to show when boarding. The ones that have popped it away usually don't take too long to find it. The thing that annoys me is when they say, oh my wife's got it and points over their shoulder. But the wife is at least 10 people back. This seems to happen to me about 3 out of 100 (or about 5 per plane!) I'm not married myself, but why is there this dire need to separate yourself from your missus (and not take your b/c with you?)