Originally Posted by
Paralytic
Would the flight actually leave in that instance? Don't they do a headcount and ensure the bodies on board match the figures from the gate?
Perhaps someone else did not turn up and they offloaded the OP by mistake. Maybe they had a similar name?
I was thinking more along the lines of the boarding pass accidentally not being scanned or perhaps not registering properly when it was. A bit far fetched possibly. But possible, I believe.