Originally Posted by
Renard
I thought the same thing. An airline never knows when the next problem may come down the road...misconnects that need to be accommodated, mechanicals, etc Getting out passengers on to their final destination as soon as possible on the first flight possible would seem to me to be a good idea. For example: The passenger you put on an earlier flight won't be a potential IDB/VDB later in the day.
Exactly.
The last SAT-IAH flight of the day (#778) comes in from EWR. Oftentimes, this means that it runs late, although the delays tend to manifest themselves late in the game. For those of us who can shake loose, make good time to the airport, and can potentially catch the next earlier flight (# 1678), it is shortsighted for CO to deter us with the $50 fee when a consequence of not standing by may be a misconnection at IAH created by the backlog at EWR. And three or four extra rum and cokes at the SAT Presidents Club.
If CO wants to charge me more when for the convenience of flying an hour earlier, can I charge it the same $50 when flights like #778 inconvenience me by running an hour behind? What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
CO Insider: get out your checkbook!