<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by FWAAA:
Michael, maybe you missed the part where Satellite Parking mentioned that this happened in El Paso, Texas. Quite likely there is no AA curbside checkin at such a small airport and I'm pretty sure there aren't any airline clubs. </font>
From a former ELP resident: There aren't any clubs. Curbside check in is as follows: 1. Give bags to skycap. 2. Follow skycap as he dumps your bags in the monster check-in line, a few yards away. 3. Tip skycap for his service. 4. Wait in the monster check-in line.
One difficulty with smallish airports like ELp is thwey are mainly staffed to handle one flight, since during the bulk of the day they only have one flight to work. As mentioned before, there are only 2 ORD lfights a day-- bad luck in scheduling causes an ORD and DFW to leave around the same time at 7am.... this never happens any other time of the day. Thus, I would peg this experience under Doppy's example of an unforseeable delay if you are not familiar with nuances of scheduling at that airport.