The value of your ticket, and leaving the aircraft
However after the search was over you could, and probably should, have exited the plane.
I've always assumed that if one took this option, they run the risk of forfeiting the value of their ticket for that flight. What is to prevent the gate agent from, in effect, saying "S***w you. Safety, or no safety, I've got your boarding pass. As far as I'm concerned, you left on that flight."
One post (now, about 6 months old) on here describes a case where the customer was threatened with arrest (I'm not making this up) if she left the aircraft. The woman did anyway, and it appears she was NOT arrested. However, in this case, would the gate agent be justified in telling the woman she forfeited the value of her ticket because she left the aircraft against the orders of a crew member?
In short, it comes to recovering the value of your ticket, are there "correct" reasons for leaving the aircraft, and "INcorrect" reasons?
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