Originally Posted by
belynch
Call my naive but I think any* airline would hold a plane for a pax that was on the ground to allow the connection if the operation of the flight would not be impacted. Whether the passenger(s) in question were elite or not.
*yes, even our good friends over at US do this
I agree with you, it's ultimately Zone (Airline Ops) and the Gate Agent that decides the fate of the possible misconnects.