[technofiend]

At least for international travel, luggage is supposed to be checked in one hour prior. I've actually had someone turn me away at 59 minutes because well frankly I think because he could and I wasn't flying business class, so my business or the loss thereof didn't matter. As we both know business and first class travelers have different rules applied or at least the rules relaxed to retain their revenue.

[dmurray]

It's likely they'd already given away your seat.