Air travel has become increasingly annoying and enervating: delayed flights, more restrictive rules on the size of carry-ons (anything bigger than a wallet may force a gate check), delayed or lost luggage, long check-in lines, etc.

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Just over an hour after that first security check the departure gate opened.

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Prosecutors said the gate agent saw the defendant sitting in the jump seat behind the pilot and told him that if he was going to sit there he would have to go back to the check-in gate to complete paperwork and verifications.

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