That doesn't make sense, how would they ever get misdirected bags to you if bags weren't ever allowed to fly without their owners being onboard?
It happens all the time that bags get to a flight that the passenger misses and passengers get to a flight that bags miss. Not remotely unusual. It's happened to me recently too.
I guess it’s different if the airline does it rather than if a passenger potentially engineers a situation that their bags fly but they are safely on the ground
Security screening isn’t perfect. Water bottles are banned now because there’s no process to screen just the content for example. The shoe bomber and the pants bomber both got on board despite active screening at the gates.
