We were flying back home from our visit to India. We had to fly on Delta from NY - JFK to Atlanta. We had boarding passes with us, but we were told that we cannot get on the flight since the flight would take off in 20 minutes. But to my surprise they were allowing others who came in after us.
so we requested this guy in the counter and he said "Money talks here!!!" here asked us to pay $100 dollars so we could get on the flight for which we had boarding passes!!!. We travelled all the way from India to NY without any trouble...Very dissappointed with the system.