thelark

Well, OP clearly described the flight departing early - I.e., pushing back before it’s scheduled time to do so. I’m taking that for face value and assuming we’re not talking about the gate closing on-time before pushback. You describe scenarios where the flight would clearly be late or it would be completely unreasonable to assume it could still be on time (e.g., closing 1 min prior to pushback). That’s not what OP described, where they had everyone on, except at least one person, and said “screw it, we’re going anyway.”

thanks for dropping that little snark bomb - really helpful and moving the conversation along.