Originally Posted by
Badenoch
The "door is closed and we can't re-open it" to a late-arriving passenger is probably better than what they should say in most cases. "Listen jackass, you couldn't be bothered to get here on time "
In many cases the passenger couldn't get there on time because the airline was late getting them there on a connecting flight, and if they were lucky managed to have arriving and and departing flights from opposite ends of two different terminals.