[justme]

Judging by your mean-spirited attitude towards anyone who does not agree with you, I have a feeling you will find a complaint board about ocean travel and complain about how miserable and incompetent the staff were there as well. I have even less sympathy than I did before because you obviously are one of the passengers who will never be happy no matter what.

Originally Posted by Trvlr

If a flight is delayed due to your incompetence, or you delay a flight to accommodate one of your employees, that's just fine, but if a paying customer arrives at the airport in plenty of time ... to make their flight, but you decide that you'd rather accommodate your ego, instead of the people who are paying your salary, suddenly it is a "security issue", or "FAA requirement", or some other ridiculous B.S.

Wrong. Wrong. Then wrong again. First off, flights are not delayed due to MY incompetence. In fact, in my entire airline career, which only ended very recently by my choice, I never caused a delay because of something I did or did not do. Second, you obviously DID NOT arrive at the airport with plenty of time, if you had, you would have gotten on the flight and never came here to complain. Airline employees have nothing to do with security, TSA, or FAA regulations. Different people, different company, complain to them if you want. I would never put a non-paying passenger on before a paying passenger if they were both at the gate at the same time. However, when you are not there 10 min prior to departure time, your seat is given to other people who want to be on that flight. Those other people COULD be airline employees, but not necessarily. Believe it or not, airlines don't operate just to fly their employees around. As far as you paying my salary, according to your own statements, my salary was paid by subsidies.

Originally Posted by Trvlr

I'm sure if you weren't working for an airline, you'd be working for GM.

Simply put, wrong again. I would never work for or buy a GM, they're pieces of crap.

Originally Posted by Trvlr

It is a matter of record that I WAS NOT LATE in my arrival to the airport - after I arrive at the airport, it is completely out of my control as to when I arrive at the gate.

But here's the thing... YOU WERE LATE. Like I said before, if you had been there with enough time you would have made it on the flight. You didn't. The second half of that statement is also false. You have plenty to do with when you arrive at the gate. Here's a quote from a different thread, "She missed her connecting flight in San Fransico becuase she was in a book store and didn't notice the time." Point made.

Originally Posted by Trvlr

Exactly how does "seat given away to an employee" equate to "you were late and they were not"?

It doesn't, but then again, that's not what I said. I said it COULD have been an employee, and again I as I said before, if you're not there 10 minutes before departure time, your seat is lost and given to someone who is actually in the gate area and is waiting to get on a flight.

Originally Posted by Trvlr

The first sentence of your reply betrays your true motivations: "Bah, you agreed with me on something else, I'm going to have to agree with you here."

Why don't you stick to things you know something about, it was an inside joke. He got it, you obviously didn't.

Originally Posted by Trvlr

So, you have waited for 12+ hours in the past, and you think everyone else should too; how exactly does this address the legitimate problem of arbitrary discrimination which you have in fact validated [when I (justme) said] "There are many reasons to let people on after the cut-off time, some legitimate, some not."

No, I don't think that just because I have waited that you should have to too. I wait because I have the privilege of flying for free if, and only if, there is an open seat. Open seats come from two things. An unsold seat which no one was going to be occupying in the first place, OR because I was there waiting IN THE GATE AREA, and someone did not show up by the cut-off time. Just to put it out there, I have been sitting in a seat on the airplane, just to be taken off to accommodate a paying passenger. Sucks for you that's not how it happened in your case. As far as legitimate and non-legitimate reasons to let people on after cut-off, if the agent had let you on, and the flight was delayed, that would have been an example of a non-legitimate reason. They would have done it because they felt warm and fuzzy inside and wanted to break the rules. Other times, if there are large groups of people that are going to miss, or crew members that need to get on the flight for company business, that would be legitimate reasons. ONE passenger failing to make it to the gate on time does not constitute delaying a flight. Again, whether you think it would have or not, ONE person going on late can and has delayed flights.

Originally Posted by Trvlr

I am traveling to Europe in the next few months, and I am going to pay over TWENTY TIMES what it would cost me to travel by plane and travel by ship. LEARN TO DO YOUR JOB EFFICIENTLY AND PROFESSIONALLY.

Good, I would hate to have to deal with someone like you who can never be pleased. Obviously you have extra money laying around to pay "TWENTY" times what air travel would cost, so go for it. Won't bother me at all. Also, you have never met me, nor have you ever worked with me. You're assuming again, and, once again, you're wrong. I was one of the most efficient and professional people you could have ever met or worked with. As a matter of fact, I received awards for my hard work from management.