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Old Feb 2, 2026 | 12:49 pm
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PrincipalAgentProblem
 
Join Date: Oct 2021
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Originally Posted by mbluecpa
Gate agent today at SEA creating a little false urgency around gate checking bags. “We need 16 bags to be checked” and a couple of references to completely full flight while app showed 55+ available seats. We left with 59 open.
Last time I was flying out of Seattle, our inbound aircraft was slightly late from overseas and then had to sit a while for its security sweep before we boarded. Rather than leaving it at that, the GA concocted a bizarre hypothetical where if we boarded now we would all have to go through TSA again (???) and so he was really doing us a favor by making us wait.
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