There is a trick that may or may not work in this circumstance - tell them your baggage is already in the hold. If they know you aren’t on the plane, they would have to unload the plane to recover the baggage. It’s worked with me once, where the gate staff called the pilot, who told them to let me through.
There is a trick that may or may not work in this circumstance - tell them your baggage is already in the hold. If they know you aren’t on the plane, they would have to unload the plane to recover the baggage. It’s worked with me once, where the gate staff called the pilot, who told them to let me through.
Which is funny because if my bags miss the flight they have no problem sending it in a flight I’m not on.
I suppose the difference is that you can’t plan for them to not get your bags on the plane in time, so the risk of a bomb is considerably reduced.