I wasn't a victim this time, but a lot of others were. I was on the DC flight (0625) and was there an hour before, the earlier flight to ORD (0600) was the one where folks were getting told to kiss off by the oh-so-friendly checkin staff.

The wait times for checkin were more than 30min, which is very very rare for the super-early flights out of RDU. This caused a lot of the ORD people to miss the 45-min window.

I only noticed today because I was on an international itinerary (YOW) and had to actually talk to an agent -- what a drag! Since I always checkin on the web when doing domestic, I was just wondering if the 45minute thing was new.

--lj