Maybe he does the route planning work as well, but fails to put tickets for a certain flight for sale? :P
I've done something similar once, though it wasn't a difficult choice. When in YYZ, we arrived at the airport and saw a flight to DTW boarding. I was with a buddy that had to go to FWA (which has more flights from DTW) after, so we were able to jump on that (even though the flight was boarding, the guy even gave us exit row seats on a DC9!). When I arrived at MSP, (DTW, sorry) I looked up the loads on my laptop and noticed that I couldn't get on a flight until about 21:00 I think it was, and it was only about 14:00. I looked at the flight board and saw that there was a flight to RST (Rochester, MN... tiny airport that I didn't even know served DTW in addition to MSP) leaving in 30 minutes. I hopped over to that gate and boarded, then continued on the same plane with the same crew to MSP an hour later.
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