Originally Posted by
seenitall
The answer is almost certainly that they were coming on a flight (either as crew or deadheads) and that flight was delayed in arriving.
I wonder how many deadheads you can have on one flight? I was on an SBA-LAX flight today that had 4-5 FAs + pilots deadheading - and we were about ~15 minutes late. Kinda surprised there were that many out of a small station like SBA...