Originally Posted by
Ian W
This doesn't happen - or at least it didn't for me a few years ago when the airline screwed up on ticketing and provided me with tickets for transatlantic then onward flight. I had boarded the onward flight using my boarding pass from check in in Europe and was approached by another pax saying 'you are sitting in my seat' whereupon we both showed valid boarding passes for the same seat on the same flight only difference was the name.
I think there is a trusting faith in the airline booking and ticketing systems that may be misplaced.
That's a different kind of c*ck-up scenario from the one we are discussing here.
we both showed valid boarding passes for the same seat on the same flight only difference was the name
Notwithstanding the seat assignment, your respective boarding cards would also have had a different barcode. That's how scanning your card gets linked back to your PNR and how the airline can make sure (for obvious reasons) that every passenger who has checked in, particularly with hold baggage, actually boards the flight.
So I see no reason to change my view that two passengers using the same boarding card wouldn't both get past the boarding card scan.
Of course if anyone want to prove me wrong, please feel free to try - next time you're travelling with a companion print out two copies of the same boarding card instead and let us know how you get on.
Just don't try it on a flight that you really have to make, as you might have a bit of explaining to do.
