Originally Posted by
Steph3n
When the jet bridge has been withdrawn and the door close the plane can still sit there for some 15-20 minutes if there is any ATC delay, it is up to the captain to let you on or not.
You are assuming that the agent will actually make an effort to tell the captain that they have another passenger. Whenever they have come back down the jetway to say they have another passenger, I personally have never said no.
Originally Posted by
rkkwan
And whether they'll hold the flight for connecting passengers are decision made by Expressjet's dispatchers on Smith St, not the GA. If they want that COEX flight on-time, they can tell the GA to not wait and process the waitlist and push.
It is not Expressjet's dispatch decision to hold a flight for passengers. That lies with Continental's operations whether they want us to hold for a connecting passenger. The only time where I would think about overriding that decision to delay waiting for connecting passengers as a captain is if we had a takeoff time from ATC that we had to meet and missing it would incur a significantly longer delay.