In fact, even after boarding has taken place the airline has the right to order passengers from the flight.

BBC: Q&A: Air passengers' rights

He was then an "assistant shippered manager", boarding with a family at Wellington Place in Belfast.

BBC: Oldest Ireland census goes online

Passbook, recently introduced with Apple's iOS6, allows users to keep boarding passes, movie tickets, coupons, loyalty cards and more in one place.

ENGADGET: RE/MAX real estate agents to carry Passbook business cards on their iPhones

Additionally, Cush said, early boarding passengers would sometimes glance up at all the empty bin space overhead and then place their carry-on in the bin.

FORBES: Will American's New Boarding Process Work? It Failed At Virgin America.

Speaking on the BBC, Brown said the devices will be put into place gradually, as will checks of carry-on luggage for traces of explosives for passengers boarding flights at British airports.

CNN: UK to tighten airport security after failed bombing

These are the places where mostly poor people send their children for learning Koranic teaching, basic education, and the other attraction, of course, is that there is free boarding and lodging over there, and with the Pakistani educational system in shambles, this is a pretty attractive place for poor families to send their children.

NPR: Pakistani Religious Schools to Defy Expulsion Order