Originally Posted by
Cory6188
I could be wrong, but I thought that there was a change in the regulation a while back that only required positive bag matching for international flights. At least, I enjoyed a half hour delay on my ATL-AMS flight a few weeks ago when someone's bag had to be removed who didn't board, but I can't remember the last time that happened on a domestic flight.
Yeah, that's only for international. They won't pull bags on domestic just because somebody isn't on the plane. I've had more than a couple of occasions on tight connections that were on opposite sides of an airport where my bag made the connecting flight but I didn't.