Narrative:

Prior to door closure; a passenger asked to get off the flight with not much of an explanation. The pilots requested to have the passenger's bags removed from the aircraft and agents /operations denied the request as it was a domestic flight and they wished to avoid a delay. There seems to be a pattern with passengers asking to deplane at the very last minute with little to no explanation as of recent. Crew members were uncomfortable with their luggage remaining on board. I believe situations like this; airlines should be required to make sure all bags on board are accounted for when a passenger exits and checked bags removed whether international or domestic.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A Flight Attendant reported that a passenger requested to get off the airplane without claiming their luggage.

Narrative: Prior to door closure; a passenger asked to get off the flight with not much of an explanation. The pilots requested to have the passenger's bags removed from the aircraft and agents /operations denied the request as it was a domestic flight and they wished to avoid a delay. There seems to be a pattern with passengers asking to deplane at the very last minute with little to no explanation as of recent. Crew members were uncomfortable with their luggage remaining on board. I believe situations like this; airlines should be required to make sure all bags on board are accounted for when a passenger exits and checked bags removed whether international or domestic.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.