Interesting. They don't hold planes often but I guess having to rebook 73 people this late at night would be a PITA. (And that AI sent it)

Come to find out it was a high school band. Makes more sense now.

I've been on a few late night flights recently where they held it for a few passengers.

agdaddy04 said:

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I've been on a few late night flights recently where they held it for a few passengers.

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I've had United hold a flight for me and others when it was a late night connection at LAX to Sydney, Australia.

But... before I learned the game, coming in from Vegas and making that tight late night connection to Sydney, they did get me to run from the gate at the end of Terminal 7 all the way down and around to the gate at the end of the 80s gates at LAX.

The other fun one was running to catch that flight to Sydney on United at LAX and then having them push back from the gate and sit there for an hour because if they left at the posted departure time, they'd arrive in Sydney too early to land, go through immigration, etc.

HollywoodBQ said:

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agdaddy04 said:

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I've been on a few late night flights recently where they held it for a few passengers.

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I've had United hold a flight for me and others when it was a late night connection at LAX to Sydney, Australia.

But... before I learned the game, coming in from Vegas and making that tight late night connection to Sydney, they did get me to run from the gate at the end of Terminal 7 all the way down and around to the gate at the end of the 80s gates at LAX.

The other fun one was running to catch that flight to Sydney on United at LAX and then having them push back from the gate and sit there for an hour because if they left at the posted departure time, they'd arrive in Sydney too early to land, go through immigration, etc.

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doors were closed, so the crew were getting paid

HollywoodBQ said:

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agdaddy04 said:

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I've been on a few late night flights recently where they held it for a few passengers.

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I've had United hold a flight for me and others when it was a late night connection at LAX to Sydney, Australia.

But... before I learned the game, coming in from Vegas and making that tight late night connection to Sydney, they did get me to run from the gate at the end of Terminal 7 all the way down and around to the gate at the end of the 80s gates at LAX.

The other fun one was running to catch that flight to Sydney on United at LAX and then having them push back from the gate and sit there for an hour because if they left at the posted departure time, they'd arrive in Sydney too early to land, go through immigration, etc.

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I think to some extent you cannot execute your flight plan, specifically your assigned slot for the ocean crossing until you're ready to depart. Sitting at the gate might not qualify. Yeah that sucks though!