Mait001 wrote:

My analogy is valid: most airlines overbook, so those at the front of the
check-in queue are more likely to be accepted than those at the end.

But if you have a ticket for a particular flight, they have to either
let you on it *or* get you to your destination another way *or* severely
compensate you. Assuming you observe the listed check-in time, of course.

I've never been bumped from a flight, but I'm always at the airport well
before the time they tell me to have checked in by.

If you think reasoned debate is a "rant", than that says more about you than it
does about me.

Comparing a minor etiquette violation to a major crime may not be a
rant, but it certainly isn't reasoned debate.