Because they're not actually assigned HK priority until they check in without a seat assignment. You start seeing them popping up on the airport standby list when people start checking in online. They're still figured into Av/Au(Cap) stats from the time they buy their ticket, though.

Within 24 hours of departure, I have found the Au number to be a remarkably accurate predicter (sp?) of how many seats will be open after HKs are assigned seats. The number of available seats listed on the airport stby list is useless until about 60-90 minutes prior.

03-29-2013 | 10:49 AM

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Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp

I guess that's appropriate since you were barely in kindergarten when sailing was hired here - but instead of poking fun you might want to listen and learn. You'll suffer through less self-inflicted head shots (like you did yesterday). Or you can buy into and spread the hyperbole. Either way, Clint said it best:

03-29-2013 | 10:58 AM

#127563

80ktsClamp

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I know how things used to be, slow. I've been exposed to this industry longer than you have.

Justifying a degradation in safety by saying "well we used to" doesn't work that great when it was much more common to die in an accident then.

Get off my lawn, slow.

03-29-2013 | 11:16 AM

#127564

Bucking Bar

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From: Douglas Aerospace post production Flight Test & Work Around Engineering bulletin dissembler

Slow?

Did you mean Sailing?

03-29-2013 | 11:31 AM

#127565

slowplay

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I realize that as the entitled child of an airline pilot you felt "exposed to the industry." Sailing has been flying since before you were born. And I if I've got your birth year correct you actually haven't been exposed longer than me.

Watching your dad pack for work, spending a couple of years at a regional and getting hired at the ripe old age of 25 doesn't provide you with a whole lot of background. Your shallow comments on this site haven't shown that you've really made the varsity (damn, that word again ;-))...btw, how many of those accidents at DAL were attributed to the call window?

There's a lesson in Gran Torino somewhere. I guess you missed it.

03-29-2013 | 12:22 PM

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This insult by PD has been deleted.

Ironic, that's what I think of people when I read a lot of the anti-alpa all the time quotes on the board. It's this sort of vitriol that killed my support of DPA.

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03-29-2013 | 12:47 PM

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johnso29

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Yikes! Yale just upset Minnesota 9 seconds into OT!

I know a lot of people probably don't care, but that's pretty impressive and I'm bored in my crashpad.

03-29-2013 | 12:55 PM

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Yikes! Yale just upset Minnesota 9 seconds into OT!

I know a lot of people probably don't care, but that's pretty impressive and I'm bored in my crashpad.

I was just watching that out here on a layover in SF. Crazy! I can't say I'm sorry to see them lose but I kind of wanted UND to play them tomorrow. Go Sioux

03-29-2013 | 01:07 PM

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Yikes! Yale just upset Minnesota 9 seconds into OT!

I know a lot of people probably don't care, but that's pretty impressive and I'm bored in my crashpad.

Now this is impressive. Penguins' pursuit of Iginla was months in the making - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette