Carl, you're having a problem getting the final AWABS prior to push? I'm serious here. Maybe its because you're on the 74. Otherwise I can't imagine why. I've only had a handful of problems in 9 years. 'Course, I'm only flying narrow bodies. 99 times out of 100, when the gate agent closes the door, the ACARs dings and the numbers come across. LA, NY, ATL, Chicago, wherever. The only time recently I've had an issue was in DTW. When I called the freq for the loading folks, I was chastised for trying to accelerate the process. The gate agent told me that there was a learning curve between them and the load folks. She was fNWA so I took her word as gospel. Other then that, I've had very few issues at DAL. Late arriving pax, bags, etc, sure. But normal ops, nope.