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Old Oct 1, 2008 | 5:02 pm
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Originally Posted by dagowolf
The reason is the horrid baggage system here in DEN. It takes forever for baggage to move around and I believe the TSA screening machines only make this issue worse. I'm suprised they couldn't bend the rules for you. I've had Delta bend the rules a couple of times for me. United told me to go suck rocks, so I haven't stepped on their planes in over 2 years.
If you're not checking bags and there are seats on the plane, yes.

It's pretty likely this day in age though that his seat was already given to another PAX and was gone gone.

LAX's 45-minute deadline is also due to the poor baggage scanning/handling/security setup.
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