Originally Posted by
BZNZ
While I had stumbled across this at some point, it would be great if the lounge agent could offer to validate it on your Airpoints account for you. I had a number of times TT prior to this feature where I thought surely this only needs to happen once. The passport is checked at the gate as a final check anyway.
The check at the gate is more you are in possession of the passport. The check in and the app step, is checking the cryptographic integrity of your passport. Different checks for different purposes.