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Crap. Ops should have known at least an hour/half a hour before flight. Crew just don't materialize out of nowhere, unless they have standby crews at the airport. If they do, ok, but failing that crew have to come from HOME, giving Ops ample time to notify check in, and bump four PAX before boarding. If they are based at the airport, ok then, otherwise its crap.
As I observed some pages back, it could have been standby crew... otherwise you are saying that in the entire approximately 95 year history of the airline industry nothing has ever happened at the last minute when all pax were on board... I never said that is what happened here I just said it's a possibility which none of us know to be the case or not and I have certainly seen aircraft stopped from departing for a paxing crew member at the last minute. It does happen.