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Old Dec 1, 2024 | 8:07 pm
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Originally Posted by Mike Jacoubowsky
And knowing that pretty much every single seat was booked on both Dec 1st (tonight) and Dec 2nd, did it make sense to send a plane out with 93 empty seats (which had been booked full)?
EC.261 makes it economically infeasible for UA to hold a plane too long for connecting passengers. Even if FRA-SFO still arrived under the cutoff, any passengers with an onward connection might hit the delay jackpot if they managed to misconnect.
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