Originally Posted by
rylan
I don't see anything about the OP trying to "cheat the system". He booked two flights leaving sufficient time for the connection. If the DL flight is late, they should accommodate you. Unfortunately you obviously had a bad agent and after some brief point should've just said thank you, hung up and called back.
As you said, the flights are in your record, and they could've made a note that the incoming is late and protected you or put you on standby for the earlier flight.
My initial read on OP's post is that they booked two separate trips--LAS-SEA, and SEA-LAX (i.e., two separate tickets). That seems to make the most sense based on what they reported the agent saying. If this is the case, the OP wasn't cheating, but certainly played the game and lost. Just bad luck.
That said, if the OP did in fact buy one ticket LAS-LAX connecting in SEA, then I'm just as confused by the phone agent's words as the OP.