Originally Posted by
techauthor
...By the way, the original flight arrived 10 minutes before the connector the travel agent put me on. By the time I got off the first leg, that flight would have had to be one gate over to make it....
They would likely have removed you from the flight anyway, and
maybe let you back on with the "just take any open seat" command. Been there, done that DEN-IAH-OKC...never again (especially now that I have UA nonstops at my disposal).