<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by DrBeeper:
C'mon King, you whiney jerk! Everyone is aware of the rules. You should have told your daughter no.
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Exactly!
What exactly were the gate agents supposed to do? Tell those who were on standby "Sorry, you'll have to wait a bit longer to find out whether you will make this flight because some guy who has already checked in had to go find his daughter?" In other words, were the gate agents supposed to inconvenience several people or two people? And once King and daughter lost their seats, what did they expect the airline to do then? Throw people off of a presumably full flight so that they could get their seats back?