Originally Posted by
jsloan
There’s no point, as far as retroactive FF credit goes, as paper boarding passes prove no such thing. It’s a vestige form a bygone era — and even then, having a boarding pass didn’t prove you boarded the flight; you could have checked in at the airport and then bailed.
This is an interesting statement. Please advise what you think anyone needs to actually prove they took a flight if a boarding pass (paper or electronic) is insufficient? I know your example is a hypothetical about checking in and then bailing. Are we just fools for even trying to get retroactive credit if we really did take the flight given the odds are stacked against since we cannot prove we took a flight?