I find this practice unnecesary and quite annoying. I don't know of any other European airline that does it - certainly not FR, BA, LX, LH, SK and KL. Even Emerald don't do it. If most airlines did boarding pass checks I wouldn't really care, but EI being the exception rather than the rule just delays boarding. I sometimes forget myself.
Originally Posted by
Pete_23567
I will say on a flight back from Lisbon recently they were “trialling” not checking the BPs… not sure why really because it would have been just as easy to quickly check them.
That's interesting. Hopefully they stop these checks altogether.