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Old August 16th, 2010, 07:30 PM posted to rec.travel.air
yirgster
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I had a flight on SWA from BWI to MDW with a 35 minute layover to OAK.
Yes I know it was tight and that was my choice.

The originating flight left and arrived late. The arrival gate was at
the very far tip of terminal A. Naturally, the outbound gate was near
the very end of terminal B and the flight was already boarding when I
de-planed. I ran through the terminals and about 100 yards from the B
gate heard myself being paged to "report immediately".

Finally, I ran panting down the jetway. The gate agent was at the door
of the plane and she said to one of the FA's: "here he is". Then she
verified that. They had to remove a couple who I assume were standbys
for me and flying together.

There are many, many people who could not have run through the airport
as I did. What would have happened in that case? Or if they were in
the back of the plane when we de-planed from the originating flight.
Fortunately I was near the front. SWA obviously knew I was on the
originating leg. Would they have just taken off if it had taken an
additional 5 or so, maybe 10 minutes for people to get from A to B?
The distance wasn't trivial. Perhaps 1/2 mile? Perhaps more. (I'm
sure some folks in this group will know.)
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Old August 16th, 2010, 07:35 PM posted to rec.travel.air
yirgster
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On Aug 16, 11:30*am, yirgster wrote:
I had a flight on SWA from BWI to MDW with a 35 minute layover to OAK.
Yes I know it was tight and that was my choice.

The originating flight left and arrived late. The arrival gate was at
the very far tip of terminal A. Naturally, the outbound gate was near
the very end of terminal B and the flight was already boarding when I
de-planed. I ran through the terminals and about 100 yards from the B
gate heard myself being paged to "report immediately".

Finally, I ran panting down the jetway. The gate agent was at the door
of the plane and she said to one of the FA's: "here he is". Then she
verified that. They had to remove a couple who I assume were standbys
for me and flying together.

There are many, many people who could not have run through the airport
as I did. What would have happened in that case? Or if they were in
the back of the plane when we de-planed from the originating flight.
Fortunately I was near the front. SWA obviously knew I was on the
originating leg. Would they have just taken off if it had taken an
additional 5 or so, maybe 10 minutes for people to get from A to B?
The distance wasn't trivial. Perhaps 1/2 mile? Perhaps more. *(I'm
sure some folks in this group will know.)


Sorry for the double post. Don't know how it happened!
 




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