Nice thread EWL, your dead right about management licking the heals of these business persons...screw em I say!! What they don't remember is that these people will jump onto another carrier without a blink of an eye, only thinking of their self interest and a dollar they might save.
I don't believe there's much loyalty left any more in this world of ours so if they are not there on time and fail to check in like everybody else...goodbye, hoo=roo, caio baby-we're out of here. Start her up ,lets go. The worst offender in my milk runs up and down the east coast would just about always be businessmen and a certain Country Party [ex] polly with a large cowboy hat who is always running late and expects to board when he is ready. I am proud to have flown with crews who leave him behind, although I do feel sorry for the ground staff copping an earful as we taxi past!!! You guys don't get paid enough.