How do you know the late arriving passengers were employees? Did you ask or did they tell you that information?
Is it possible that since the flight was already delayed due to close out procedures (which can be a pain) that it would not hurt to add another passenger who was also running late. No sense in keeping a late passenger from boarding if the flight is already late.
Sometimes the captain will make a call to dispatch to change the fuel order since it would take longer to have the fuel truck put in say, 5 lbs of fuel, which obviously is not worth the time. But the order change does not happen instantly, the weights onboard have to be reported for recalculations.
You see, their is no way of knowing exactly how much fuel an aircraft will be arriving with, due to taxiing and other factors, until it actually gets to the gate.
IT WOULD NICE IF AIRLINES ALLOWED MORE TIME BETWEEN FLIGHTS FOR PASSENGERS AND EMPLOYEES TO DO THEIR JOB. I get 20 minutes to deboard passengers and luggage and board new ones. Not much time when dealing with 100 passengers.
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