I may have had that captain before because I swear I have heard that line before from the cockpit when we were really delayed. There was another time when I was on just a runofthemill commuter flight to LGA out of RIC and they hustled us on the plane and in the boarding process the FA come on the speakers to say that they had just been notified that the plane was needed as soon as possible at LaGuardia and hence we were on the plane and they vamoose, not a second of waiting for air clearance (normally you sit for at LEAST 10 min waiting LGA to allow them to proceed). It was the fastest flight to NYC that I had ever had from any of the Virginia airports.