Originally Posted by
fastair
This works fine as long as you are there at the gate before the automation does it automatically, which can happen early or as late as 30 min prior to dptr. Th automation assumes if you are on the list, you want it, and if you didn't want it, you would not be on the list. Automation, the root of all evil
I've been under the general impression that automation has been inhibited (or at least at CLE and IAD where I've noticed this most frequently) -- the case I mentioned above played out about 5 minutes prior to start of boarding. Seems based on your post that this is not the case system-wide.