Originally Posted by
SonTech
As soon as the boarding pass was scanned tjey are classed as being boarded regardless of whether they actually set foot on the aircraft. If the passengers had bags they would take some time to find which was probably the main chunk of the 74 minute delay.
Indeed and a completely plausible explanation for the delay. But just seems to be an extreme circumstance to have somebody Offloaded due to an allergy, but as mentioned by CWS earlier in the thread, this has happened before.
If indeed we can be convinced that this was the case, then the question has to be asked as to why it wasn't communicated to the crew etc.