<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by dnw:
thadocta- so what you're saying is basically that online/telephone checkin is basically just seat selection. Experience has made me suspect this for a while- until the boarding pass is actually issued you're not really 'checked in' and they wont come looking for you... well unless your initials are NM and then they wait for you at the gate with it 
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Pretty much - of course, we always looked at who was missing, and if it was someone like Nick then there would be different procedures followed. But for an ordinary traveller, if we did not
know they were there at the airport we would not bother.
Dave