Originally Posted by
Cyba
If you enter an AA plane and tell the crew you're in 16J, for example, they'll ask you to cross the aisle and turn left or right. You do the same on a BA plane at LHR or anywhere else in the world and they'll say that they still need to see your boarding pass. Theirs is not a curtesy check. It's mandatory. That's how it was explained to me by crew many times. Maybe some of our resident crew can enlighten us?
On Qantas flights, they are checking to make sure that you have the correct boarding pass for the flight - of course you have, it was scanned at the gate, but if you fly the route regularly, you might have a BP from a flight the day before or whenever.
From what a QF FA told me, they are actually checking dates as well as flight numbers.
Dave