Originally posted by elaw
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If they change planes/seating configurations on you between check in and departure.
If you get canceled, re-routed, and by luck STILL make your connection (maybe IT got delayed)- your seat might have been released- and then they stick someone in it. Your cell phone while you are in ATL is probably accurate, but your paper pass from 5:00 AM in Fargo may not be accurate.
I can easily see two folks with pieces of paper for the same seat.
Now, all that being said- the barcode readers (ok the system behind them) OUGHT to be checking all of this and reconciling it.
If the system were to work properly and your old boarding pass is no longer valid for your seat, as your barcode is scanned, the computer should set off extremely loud warning buzzers, and then the airport police will converge on you, taze you, handcuff you and take you off site to the county prison while the airline looks into the situation. This business of kicking folks off planes MUST STOP!
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