– Why do airlines let passengers check-in online 24 hours beforehand? By checking in, shouldn’t they confirm a passenger is actually at the airport?
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Little tip for future flyers I recently learned on TikTok: If you type in the flight number in an iMessage text and send it to yourself (or anyone else), you get an embedded live link to the flight, so you can on the the morning of the flight check the terminal, gate and delays and all that. Pretty neat feature sometimes.
I honestly think it’s just a straight up scam. If you buy premium economy, southwest checks you in automatically 24 hours ahead. It’s mostly just an excuse to upsell priority boarding, etc. IMO. Yes airlines overbook, but they do that long before the check-in process.
When you scan your boarding pass before security. That’s the real checking in.
Everything before is just getting tickets and handing bags over, don’t have bags you can get digital tickets.
Had a colleague whose ticket glitched the system when he scanned it. It let him through security but didn’t register in the system he went through. So when he got to the gate and they scanned his ticket in it declined said he wasn’t at the airport and he couldn’t board the flight.
What is the functional benefit of making sure the passenger is at the airport? The plane is gonna take off with or without them
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