On a Turkish flight the connection was very short and the plane left late so we landed 25 minutes before the connecting flight to TLV. They tried scanning us thru onto the plane (I believe the doors closed already but we where 40 people) but it didn't work. The guy there called management to get the flight to allow boarding again but he got shut down due to "the suitcases won't make it on the flight". I know of many other situations on the same connection that they let people on even though suitcases didn't make it, but I assume there they didn't end boarding yet.
I didn't mind. Full EU comp (600 euro) and thier business class lounge.