Sheeps Guts - If you lose a passenger in the Caribbean who checks in late, you have gained the trust and respect of the passengers that did check in on time. A positive marketing move - and the drop kick will be back as soon as he is left behind by another carrier. Clients like that have absolutely NO loyalty or allegience.
Coral - unfortunately, even if you can track a bag to what can it is in onboard a heavy, chances are that it will be the first loaded, and as such every can between the loading door and the can in question will need to be offloaded before the offending bag is found - major time loss.
Flight detent - Have had a passenger offloaded ex DXB in J class - a son of a sheik decided he wanted to take his parrot to London - so naturally the r@gheads bumped an infidel.
Huntsman - the factors that delay flights whether it be mechanical, weather conditions, ATC, strikes or whatever are exclusive from external forces. A passenger must allow for all contingencies to get themselves to the airport in reasonable time. Factors outside the airport or operational area cannot be an excuse. An airline cant be blamed for your late arrival because a truck jacknifed on the Tullamarine freeway. Qantas or Virgin have no control over this. Nor do the Internationals.
Fris B - I have used "sorry Ocker - the fokker's chocka" many times, but cannot claim copyright - I do believe it originated in the TN Queensland outports.
Best all
EWL