What the heck is the point of scanning boarding passes if they don't flag that this is not the flight the boarding...

What the heck is the point of scanning boarding passes if they don't flag that this is not the flight the boarding pass was issued for? Like why even bother? And why doesn't the system ping the minute you get two boarding passes for the same assigned seat? I mean, is there even a database?

http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2017/05/08/united-airlines-flies-woman-to-san-francisco-instead-france.html
http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2017/05/08/united-airlines-flies-woman-to-san-francisco-instead-france.html

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  1. Sam CurtisMay 10, 2017 at 4:55 AM

    "Back in the 80s, we had a real problem with people just hand-drawing faux-barcodes onto old receipts and boarding a plane with them, so as long as the scanner parses the barcode as an actual number, we assume it's good."

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