Originally Posted by
christep
Are you absolutely sure that CX changed your flight? You only have AA's word for this as I understand it. Maybe they were covering up for the fact that you hadn't turned up at the airport at the point they did their "all and sundry up to first" routine and by the time they realised you were there they had no seats left for you and tried to dig themselves out of a hole.
I'm at a loss understanding how AA could have determined at T-40 that passengers with issued boarding passes were no-shows.... If there is indeed a method, I imagine that it must somehow be related to the issuance of checked luggage tags by CX in HKG. Does anyone know if there's a cut-off time for "through" luggage to be rechecked at AA's check-in desk at SFO?
Otherwise, doesn't the "all and sundry up to first" process begin much, much later in the boarding process?