Had the OP been checked in for the flight, his seat wouldnt have been released. If he's not checked in then nobody knows he really is coming.



QUOTE=Mike Jacoubowsky;10283305]But apparently there's something, or used to be something, that alerted a gate agent that someone was on a connecting flight. A year and a half ago, during a really bad spell of weather in the northeast, I had one of those multi-day "fun" experiences trying to get home. Originally flying out of BWI, where I sat in a plane on a taxiway for a bit over an hour before everything was shut down, then a $130 cab ride to a hotel near IAD for a trip out the next day.

UA got me out of Dodge (IAD), which was highly commendable because many people were stuck for quite a while. It was an IAD-SEA-SFO run, with the first part running very late, so I landed at SEA two minutes after my SEA-SFO leg was to leave. Somehow, UA knew of my situation, and a couple minutes before landing an FA told me to get off the plane quickly and run to my gate. As I got off there were literally 3 people waving me in the right direction to my next flight, which they'd held for me.

The people on that flight must have thought I was a rock star (ok, an aging rock star!) to have the flight held.

So did all that happen due to an angel in the air or on the ground?[/QUOTE]