Originally Posted by
CollegeFlyer
My guess is that the GAs offloaded a bunch of pax from the flight (either systematically or arbitrarily), so their BPs would not work anymore. But the GAs did not want to tell the pax that they were offloaded (or why). So by letting the scanner beep and reject the pax, they can just blame "the computer."
My guess is that if your seat assignment didn't happen to exist on the -200 you were SOL.