In the good old days, when I was working in the North Sea oil sector, we often came south to Aberdeen late-ish with a planeload of passengers who had been offshore for a fortnight. The onward scheduled airline would generally wait for them and make a ramp transfer (Omigod, 'elf and safety) so they could get home. Later I worked for said scheduled airline (Britain's right-hand man) and was able to reciprocate the service. In those days service came before puncuality tables.