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Old 10-25-2010 | 07:53 AM
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Originally Posted by forgot to bid

Also, if your flight is to leave at 9:52am, then D0 should be 5 minutes later, not 9:52. We should be taking care of our passengers right up to 9:52am not right up to 9:42am.


This is a real problem. Gate agent are now to have the numbers in the computer at D-7... So they get a delay if this is not done. I asked several ACS in ATL about this and they said yep they cannot reopen a flight after D-7 w/o getting a delay. So if they said they will not add people after have closed the flight. Even with 6mins left. Seems counterintuitive to me.

So what's the point of being able to block out 5mins early with people still at the gate?

This last trip I got most of WDRs 5-6min b4 sched dept. Who knows how many tight conx ( that could have used 5mins more) we left behind.