That system may be good for the scammers. Imagine if on a tight flight, everyone got to the airport 2 hours before the gate opened up? What do you do in that scenario? Stand the whole time at the podium waiting for the counter person to open up? Form some line? So you gotta go to the bathroom, and you tell the other non rev pax to hold the spot for you? I wonder who makes these rules. Such different ways of thinking and doing business. Such extremes. It's a wonder how laws get passed and differ from state to state. What seems like a slam dunk fair thing is suddenly the most unfairest thing of all.