Originally Posted by
Sueyoulater
I am not a frequent flyer. If there are "unwritten rules" that are not readily shared, there is no reason for me to know as much.
If you are aware of any official policy or FAA rules, etc.. that I could review and which says they can do what they did, I would like to see it. I would be stunned and amazed to find out that they can give you a printed boarding pass that says this is boarding time and then then leave 35 minutes early.
There aren't any policies or rules that say they can do what they did. That doesn't matter.
What matters is that there aren't any policies or rules that
prohibit what they did.
Don't get me wrong - that the airline employee had available to them such a drastic means of punishing you is very wrong. Our SSSS system should be dismantled (and should never have been enacted).
And it stinks when a flight departs earlier than the revised delayed departure estimate. But nearly everyone else on the flight was probably sitting near the gate and heard the "good news" that the flight wasn't as delayed as earlier thought. Where were you? (As a very frequent flyer, I'd be sitting in the airline club/lounge, where I'd be taking a serious chance of missing my flight, but I'm a risk-taker.)
Again, what you endured was wrong. A curse on anyone who thinks airline employees should be able to conspire with government agents to mistreat you like that.