Originally Posted by
DALMD88FO
I tried to do this last night Jfk to mco however the gate agent gave me the "we don't have time to change you to that" and closed out the flight. Unfortunately the gate agents are under huge pressure to close out the flights on time, which is 10 minutes early, and in JFK they have 5 minutes knocked off the clock even though the departure time says the posted time.
JFK is the worst at this. I've been left at the gate with an open cockpit JS because the agent didn't want to take a delay. I pointed out that they were already 10 minutes late, who cares if they're 11 minutes late? The agent literally ignored me, walked to the jetway and closed the door behind them. I can only hope Karma finds that man some day and he gets to spend an extra night in a place he doesn't want to be, because somebody didn't want to take a minute out of their day to do the right thing.