Code shared flight departing at different times

Yesterday at Denver International I noticed that CO1408 from DEN to
IAH was shown on the departure display as leaving at 6:07 pm from gate
A45. However, the (evidently) code-shared NWabcd and COPApqrst (I
forgot the NW and COPA flight numbers) were shown as leaving at 6:08
pm and 6:09 pm respectively. The flight was operated by Continental.

The same time discrepancy appeared with respect to other flights code-
shared by CO, NW and COPA.

My guess is that the gate scheduling system doesnt understand code-
sharing and cant handle apparently differnet flights depatring at the
same time from the same agte. The work-around must be for the
operators to display the same flight as departing at different times.
This is also weird because if the scheduling system has such a
constraint built in you would think the delay times between gate uses
should be at least 5 minutes or something more realistic, rather than
one minute.

Of course this is no big deal and I am not complaining or anything. I
just thought it was curious. I havent looked at other airports and
dont know if the departure displays there have the same behavior.

Quark

On 27 Feb 2007 11:59:47 -0800 'Quark'
posted this onto rec.travel.air:

Yesterday at Denver International I noticed that CO1408 from DEN to
IAH was shown on the departure display as leaving at 6:07 pm from gate
A45. However, the (evidently) code-shared NWabcd and COPApqrst (I
forgot the NW and COPA flight numbers) were shown as leaving at 6:08
pm and 6:09 pm respectively. The flight was operated by Continental.

The same time discrepancy appeared with respect to other flights code-
shared by CO, NW and COPA.

My guess is that the gate scheduling system doesnt understand code-
sharing and cant handle apparently differnet flights depatring at the
same time from the same agte. The work-around must be for the
operators to display the same flight as departing at different times.
This is also weird because if the scheduling system has such a
constraint built in you would think the delay times between gate uses
should be at least 5 minutes or something more realistic, rather than
one minute.

Of course this is no big deal and I am not complaining or anything. I
just thought it was curious. I havent looked at other airports and
dont know if the departure displays there have the same behavior.


Maybe the plane was taking off in three pieces at one minute intervals
between 6.07p and 6.09p ...lol ;-)