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Old Oct 8, 2002 | 6:46 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by ckinsey:
I am absolutely no expert at this but given an option, what about choosing the earliest possible (or reasonable) flight so that you should be on that aircraft's first leg?</font>

It's not aircraft specific.

I take the first flight out to the west coast every week from PIT, which is a hub. However, connecting passengers that end up on my flight checked in for their feeder flight hours before. Unless I want to get to PIT and check in for my 10am flight before another elite checks in for his 7:50 feeder from MHT, he will always be ahead of me on the list for our joint PIT-west coast leg. (I know this because I have sat next to him twice and see him up front much more often than me).
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