CASABLANCA to FRANKFURT (CMN-FRA) on Lufthansa A321-200 in business class

The guy manning the lounge asked to see my boarding pass. Then he asked to see my other boarding pass. I'm not sure what this was about - perhaps boarding passes get a stamp or sticker here, which I'd missed by being in transit? After a few moments he shrugged his shoulders, scribbled a note on the back of the boarding pass and handed it back to me.

I didn't have long to ponder this when boarding was called. At the gate there was no sign of boarding other than a long queue of passengers. Ah a pre-emptive boarding call, although given the relatively small size of airport and that most duty free and other shops were closed at this hour of night, I am not sure how difference it made.

While I stretched my legs wandering around a call for business class was made. Just as I reached the desk the agent ran off leaving me stranded next to the long economy line which then started boarding. By the time he came back half of economy had boarded. He then asked for my other boarding pass too, and when I couldn't produce it he spent some time looking up stuff on the computer. Eventually I was allowed to board, one of the last passengers through the gate. With a fairly full flight there was a queue in the airbridge, but it moved fairly quickly. This time I had a seatmate who'd already claimed the space under the middle seat in front as well as under the middle seat tray (part of the middle seat seatback folds down as a tray and you can store a laptop or other small bag under the tray).