Originally Posted by tuolumne

2 weeks ago IAD-LAX 739, the captain came on and made this announcement. He asked for all those that were connecting onto Sydney or Reno to please raise their hands. And then he said "to those other passengers, please remember these hands and courteously give them priority to deplane". I thought this was a nice way to do it, and being the captain making the announcement, I thought people took it more seriously. We ended up waiting for 25 minutes for an open gate and everyone ended up misconnecting anyhow, but I digress...