Originally Posted by
Trent900
The early days of the Shuttle service where you could turn up at the gate ten minutes before departure and be guaranteed a seat. If the flight was full BA would lay on another aircraft!
I'd love to know if that actually happened. I turned up once at MAN, only to find the flight was fully booked. When I mentioned the "guarantee", they said it would take too long to fly another plane up from LHR, and the next flight wasn't full - so tough luck!