When is it okay for an airline to release your seat?
I know we have alot of opinionated people on this forum, and there may already be a discussion posted for this. but I came upon a situation today while working and was just curious what everyone here thought.
in an ATC delay situation when is it okay to release the passengers seats give them to standby passengers and send the flight out? since the flight is already past it's original scheduled departure. the captain of the aircraft tells you, we have a new wheels up time, lets board so we can go. do you wait to dispatch the flight untill the posted estimated time of departure that the passengers were given? risk losing your wheels up time and extending the delay? or do you decide once a majority of passengers are on and you're still waiting for 5 more passengers? release those 5 passengers seats get people from the later delayed flight onto the earlier delayed flight so the other passengers on the plane can make connections?
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