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justme: No one asked for your limp sympathy. How about you, and every other incompetent airport employee learn how to do your job efficiently and properly. The running theme with every one of you current, or former, TAX PAYER SUBSIDIZED airline employees is the same; 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 (read the responses from your ilk) 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. I'm sure if you weren't working for an airline, you'd be working for GM. Perhaps you should take your own advice, and stick YOUR assumptions in the same place you can stick your absent sympathy (you'll find the money I will no longer spend on air travel there too). I have better things to do with my time (and so do a hell of a lot of other people who subsidize your industry) than use it to compensate for your incompetent, discriminatory tactics. 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. Exactly how does "seat given away to an employee" equate to "you were late and they were not"? Yet you have the audacity to refer to inaccurate "assumptions?" 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." 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 ("There are many reasons to let people on after the cut-off time, some legitimate, some not."). "Misery loves company" is not a valid premise for a rebuttal my freeloading friend, and, you are not going to like it, but FYI: 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. Cheers!