Originally Posted by
Guy Betsy
BA can just uncheck him and unload his baggage and yes they can reroute him. But why the sorry excuse?
this is not only a "just", this is actually quite a lot of work and also has some security implications. (I assume that since they were on the aircraft already the bag was somewhere in there as well - if it had still been in the Terminal it might have been easier but still involves manual handling)