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4 hours ago, Brisketexan said:


Had a Brazilian airline pull that on us 25+ years ago (before smartphones and online booking). We show up in Buenos Aires for our flight home, 2+ hours early, and they tell us “if you run, you can still make it.” What? Yeah…they moved it up by 90 mins, we had 30 mins to check bags, clear security, and get to our gate. Fuckers.

At least you could still smoke on that flight.... 

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On 8/13/2025 at 7:42 PM, Revolution512 said:

So you can’t make money running a shitty airline nobody wants to fly? Cheap asses looking for flights to Vegas don’t pay the bills?

I may be a degenerate gambler, but I ain't flying Spirit.

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On 8/18/2025 at 6:41 PM, billfromlaketravis said:

I assume United is the move for Houston to Denver? Work is making me do a back in October. It looks like United has both the earlier departures and latest returns. 

Yep. Almost all of my business flights are DEN - IAH/DFW/AUS.  United is the way to go.

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5 minutes ago, Chewbacca said:

Yep. Almost all of my business flights are DEN - IAH/DFW/AUS.  United is the way to go.

Keeps you out of C terminal as well. Especially lucky if you fly into/out of A and can skip the cattle car and walk

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1 minute ago, billfromlaketravis said:

Gonna be Terminal C. I’m getting in very early and coming back pretty late on Thursday. I hope I’ll be OK.

Nothing inherently wrong with C, it's just the annoyance of having to ride the cattle car all the way out that way. 

I also like the newer gates and bathrooms that United has in B

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46 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:

Gonna be Terminal C. I’m getting in very early and coming back pretty late on Thursday. I hope I’ll be OK.

Concourse C at DEN is what he was referring to, not Terminal C at IAH. You’ll be in/out of Concourse C at DEN if you choose to route WN HOU-DEN as opposed to UA IAH-DEN. Concourse C at DEN is a beating due to their clusterfuck of an airport train. “Hoooold on! This train is departing for all C gates.”

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6 minutes ago, royiv said:

Concourse C at DEN is what he was referring to, not Terminal C at IAH. You’ll be in/out of Concourse C at DEN if you choose to route WN HOU-DEN as opposed to UA IAH-DEN. Concourse C at DEN is a beating due to their clusterfuck of an airport train. “Hoooold on! This train is departing for all C gates.”

Meh, there's little difference between B and C at DIA.  And you have to ride the train to A now as well.

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4 minutes ago, kevwun said:

I like that Denver spent a gazillion dollars on a new main terminal that looks like a circus tent.

It has always looked like that.  The gazillion dollars was spent on the inside. New security is much better, though.

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4 minutes ago, Chewbacca said:

Meh, there's little difference between B and C at DIA.  And you have to ride the train to A now as well.

Any second saved riding on that piece of shit is worth it.

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14 minutes ago, Chewbacca said:

It has always looked like that.  The gazillion dollars was spent on the inside. New security is much better, though.

Went through on Sunday. Huge improvement from before. The train to C took all of 3 minutes too. 

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Posted
1 hour ago, Biff Tannen said:

The amount of preboards nowadays is out of control. It’s like a whole other letter group unto itself. Is that going to change with assigned seats?

With assigned seats, I have a hard time caring how many people get on before me. 

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37 minutes ago, gernblansten said:

With assigned seats, I have a hard time caring how many people get on before me. 

It's a must to get on early if you have an overhead bag and don't want to be that guy swimming upstream to find a compartment or check at the gate.

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7 minutes ago, Vegas64 said:

It's a must to get on early if you have an overhead bag and don't want to be that guy swimming upstream to find a compartment or check at the gate.

Este.  And I'm not checking my bag.

Posted
On 8/17/2025 at 12:45 PM, TXSooner518 said:

Delta pulled a new one on me yesterday - randomly moved my flight 10 minutes earlier with less than an hour notice before flight. Was very unappreciated. 10 min may not seem like much but for a pre-8am flight with two teenagers, sucked. Had never seen that before. Always assumed it was kind of the same rule as a bus - it can be late but can’t be early.

Especially considering you have to check your bags 50 minutes early.   My friend showed up 45 minutes early and they wouldn’t let her get on the flight

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On 8/18/2025 at 7:08 AM, kevwun said:

Delta seems to change flight times more than any other airline we fly.

DFW changes gates like they are under foreign observation and they are hiding missiles.

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Posted
14 hours ago, Iceman said:

DFW changes gates like they are under foreign observation and they are hiding missiles.

Ahh the joy of catching an airbus 321 in B terminal that used to only have regional jets. 

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So about to hop a flight to Nashville and the gate attendant announced they don’t have enough bags checked for ballast in the airplane therefore they are offering to check bags for free..,

Have to wonder how often this happens now after the change in policy.

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45 minutes ago, TxTower said:

So about to hop a flight to Nashville and the gate attendant announced they don’t have enough bags checked for ballast in the airplane therefore they are offering to check bags for free..,

Have to wonder how often this happens now after the change in policy.

I heard it both to and from Vegas last week

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54 minutes ago, Aldo Raine said:

I heard it both to and from Vegas last week

They've announced the same deal on every flight I've been on the past couple of weeks.  Looks like it's a new AI predictive policy:

New SWA Gate Check Policy

Spoiler

Southwest could end up gate-checking more bags thanks to this policy

After Southwest changed its free-bags policy, it's inevitable that more people are going to try to bring carry-ons on board the flight. Sadly, the company is dealing with this in a way that could cause more headaches for passengers.

 "We’re using a machine learning tool that predicts the number of gate-check bags needed for each flight, which enables our teams to act early and keep the operation running smoothly," Chief Operating Officer Andrew M. Watterson said in a recent Southwest earnings call for the second quarter.

 Of course, if the airline is predicting early when it is going to need to gate-check bags, this could mean people have their bags snagged by an airline official and forced into being gate-checked, even if the overhead bins are not yet full.

 There's very little that infuriates passengers more than having their bags taken while boarding the flight, and then getting on the plane and finding empty overhead bins where they easily could have placed the luggage.

 Passengers are already complaining about Southwest Airlines gate-checking bags

Southwest passengers have already experienced this issue with bags being gate-checked, despite there being plenty of room on board.

View from the Wing reported on several passengers tweeting their anger over the last few weeks of July, with one X user, Steve Schoenherr, tweeting out, "Is this a new policy or a control issue to check bags for flights with many empty seats and compartments completely open at takeoff?"

Unfortunately, this is inevitably going to keep happening, as machine learning isn't perfect.

 

 

  

Posted
2 hours ago, TxTower said:

So about to hop a flight to Nashville and the gate attendant announced they don’t have enough bags checked for ballast in the airplane therefore they are offering to check bags for free..,

Have to wonder how often this happens now after the change in policy.

Would be hilarious if they still end up checking the same number of bags that they used to, but the majority are done for free at the gate, eliminating the revenues after they've already alienated their best customers.

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