Timeline for Would an airline be willing to let me board a similar flight that leaves a few hours earlier, if I ask at the airport a few hours before the flight?

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Dec 19, 2023 at 8:35	comment	added	Graham		@arp Yeah, I've had my hold luggage go on its own little journey before now. :) Still though, if as far as you knew the bag was going to be on your plane, you're less likely to have a bomb in it. It's the case where the passenger gets the bag loaded on the plane and then doesn't turn up for the flight which is the problem. (To be fair, I've done that too, but that was a chaotic departure from Oulu where due to bad weather there were 3 planes outside all going back to Stansted, and I simply ended up in the wrong queue.)
Dec 19, 2023 at 2:00	comment	added	arp		This is supposed to be the case but is not always so. My parents were once denied a switch to an earlier flight because, they were told, their luggage would not make it... so they sat for 6 hours in a non-climate-controlled under-construction international waiting area, got to their destination, and (eventually) found their luggage set aside as "unclaimed" from the earlier flight.
Oct 29, 2022 at 23:43	history	answered	Graham	CC BY-SA 4.0