I dont understand how the checkin agent 'didnt catch' the mistake and issued a boarding pass.
How does a boarding pass get issued without a paid-for ticket? This is where AC is full of crap. If there was no ticket, no boarding pass would have been possible.
Everytime I get rebooked on AC from another airline, there is a complicated checkin process that takes 20 minutes and has to be handled by the agent, and by some back-room security bs, since its a last minute full Y/J booking usually that I didnt pay for
In any case, the more bad press on AC, the better.