Originally Posted by
jdrtravel
Does anyone know if DL takes pax status into account when deciding to hold a flight? My assumption is that they don't, that they hold it if they can without causing more problems down the line (crew time out, delaying pax for connections at destination, etc) and/or if holding it will prevent them from having to pay for a bunch of hotel rooms.
as a DM I have had three flights in the last year that they (GA and FA said they held the flight for me because of late arriving connection flight. 2 were the last flight of the day. One was an early evening flight, where missing the connection would have gotten me home at 1:00am.