Originally Posted by
Dave Noble
The passenger required no passport to travel to LAX and it would be wrong of AA to stop passengers at that point - for example, the passenger may have their passport at LAX
The passenger is solely responsible for having required documentation and there is no way that AA is responsible for costs of getting back
I can name another carrier - Delta - that routinely demands travel docs before allowing passengers to embark on a domestic segment with immediate connection to international. You'll hear passengers paged out of DTW as they head to ATL, JFK, LAX...
That doesn't change passenger responsibility here. 'They didn't tell me I failed soon enough' doesn't have much play.