Originally Posted by
joshua362
This cannot possibly be a true blanket statement. As a victim of many late incoming connections during the 2013-2014 meltdown years and going end to end at BWI with my name booming over the loudspeakers to hurry, they would give my seat away? If it was the last seat? Never happened to me although I never stopped to see if there were standby's waiting being the last person to board with A01.
They generally start the announcements before 10.
If they need a seat at 10, they'll take the seat at 10. Because they can.
If they don't need the seat, they can still close the door at that point, but they'll usually wait until scheduled departure and perhaps make more announcements.