Originally Posted by
MikeyZBT
...how hard is it to check again, on your own, the status of your flight??...
And check again, and recheck, and then do it over again? And take a look at and then keep an eye on the departure gate?
If the equipment for the flight is there, why would one leave the gate area at all? If you are talking about a mainliner, it will take at least 20 minutes to load and, if boarding has not started, you will have that much time to run and grab some food (and bring it back with you). But this was an RJ, which can load and go in less than 10 minutes.
I do have some sympathy for the OP for learning a basic lesson the hard way but all airlines, at all airports, operate the same way and none of them have their electronic IRROP communications to passengers down to a zero error state.