Originally Posted by
MSPeconomist
Can't the SD see a flight manifest indicating connections? It should be easy to see that the guy who asked to be moved up while claiming he had a tight connection wasn't connecting anywhere.
My best example of this would be one time when I had LGA-YYZ, then YYZ-SFO, on separate bookings (first was booked, non-refundable, before I realized I didn't need to be in YYZ, and this was the cheapest option).
They screwed up the ticket of my LGA-YYZ, and refused to board me. They put me on the next flight after sorting it out. So my huge buffer for the separate bookings became uncomfortably small, even for me.
To anyone at AC, YYZ was my final destination. But I had a VERY tight connection. I was also in literally the last row of the plane (and that was also something I was trying to get fixed).
I don't do separate-PNR connections often, but I've done them enough that I would never discount someone just because the SD can't see the connection.