Originally Posted by
sbrower
No, I am correct. And, while you may be correct about how the flight crews "you know" would request the baggage to be removed, they fly every day without knowing whether someone checked a bag, and then didn't ever bother getting on the plane.
This seems odd to me, if you check a bag and then never scan your boarding pass to get on the plane it would be clear as day to the GA that you hadn't boarded and I would guess pretty easy for them to locate your bag and remove it from the flight. That seems like a huge security risk (especially this day in age) to allow people to check bags and never board the flight so the bag flies without them.