The question is: What's the higher risk for the airline - that a bad person shows up in person, with a valid foreign boarding pass, to do some fraud with the ri

The question is: What's the higher risk for the airline - that a bad person shows up in person, with a valid foreign boarding pass, to do some fraud with the risk of you coming to the counter shortly after or to have an unhappy customer if they resist (well yeah, airlines do much to avoid having happy customers ...) The risk of someone doing real harm there is quite low ...