Originally Posted by dspringer28
Once I had a night flight running late (don't remember why) and they told us if we don't take of by XX:XX, then we won't be able to go today. Lucky for us, we did take off with about 5 min to spare

This happenned to me in OAK on a United flight in the summer of 2000. (I think we had to take off by 12:30 am or so.) We made it too.
Alex