How it is processed is surely irrelevant. If it is valid to stop the person at , say security, at 35 minutes - since that is the defined time, then I cannot see how it can be invalid to have a defined time at the gate
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corporate-wage-slave
My reading is that the court said "final boarding" status was the cut off. If you arrive at the gate during the "final boarding" stage then the airline made a mistake. The court didn't rule on the issue of aircraft departure. We can be reasonably sure IB mentioned the boarding pass timetable, but the CJEU mentioned final boarding rather than any other factor. In clause 34 the court implies the customer only needs to "present themselves in time to board the following flight". Note that IB offloaded them at 15:17 on a 16:05 departure.
I would be very surprised if at 20 minutes, the status shown for the flight was anything other than final call
Offloading at 48 minutes before a flight is a lot different than being denied at 20 minutes