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.
Always wondered about bags that are in the hold and needing to be offloaded. Given each has a barcode linking to a pax, can they be located relatively easily from this if needed to be offloaded? So can the baggage handlers make a guesstimate as to where they might be in the hold based on which baggage loading truck they were on, ie it was the third of four? Or it even more accurate that they know (for example) this particular bag was #124 of 170 so probably at the start of the last third of those loaded in the hold?