Originally Posted by
Toshbaf
Whoa, ramp agent punishing the passengers to punish the captain. That is like Egyptair 990, where a crew member in 1999 was probably mad and crashed the JFK-CAI bound plane in to the Atlantic, killing everyone.
Wow, equating crashing a plane to making a crew walk further to catch the employee shuttle. I feel sorry for you if you really think those events are even remotely related.
Apparently you didn't bother to read my explanation of hub pax operations above. So I'll quote myself:
I hate to state the obvious, but I suppose many aren't familiar with hub ops. The vast majority of pax at a hub are making connections, so arrival gate is pretty much irrelevant...especially since almost every gate is used in a bank, and many are used overnight. It's a zero sum game for pax. I can give them a close gate (to the terminal/employee shuttle), or I can give them a far away gate and give another plane the close gate.
For the record at most (all?) hub airports, "ramp agents" have nothing to do with tower operations.