Originally Posted by
mnredfox
Back to the original issue, I personally don't think the thrust really had much time impact, rather they knew the original SAN plane and now ours (MKE) would take another hour to depart, whereas our original plane was ready to go.
Nice point taking a step back. With the thread twisting back and forth, you bring back to a good point.
Swap the planes, take the delay and any penalties, enable the SAN bound flight to get in under the curfew, late, however still under the curfew^, enable the MKE flight to arrive late, yet arrive none the less^, have planes and crews in position within rest time limits for next days schedule^, while many delayed
, some may have recieved bonus miles or something while others may not have
(we dont know) all survived to be delayed another day on a future flgiht
. - H