I was watching "airline USA" and there were 2 passengers missing from a flight to vegas.. it left exactly on time and they had been booked in for hours already so they were in the airport..
they turned up 4 mins late and complained like hell that the flight had left without them..
this really chaps my ass...
they were there for about 3 hours but couldn't get to the gate on time?
reason?
they stopped on the way to the gate to get some fruit salad to eat on the plane because "all you get on the plane is peanuts.."
so knowing that they were cutting it close, they stopped for food and assumed that the plane wouldn't leave without them, then they complained that it had...!!!
I have sympathies for people who are late through no fault of their own ( connecting flights late arriving, major pile up on a motorway etc.. ) but these people that leave it to the last minute and moan when they don't get the world stopped for them so they can get on really gets my goat..