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Who works the other end?


I guess I don't really know how it works in airports. But if you're in nantucket and want to fly to, say, boston, you go buy a ticket from faye. Who do you see if you're in boston and wanna fly to nanctucket?

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Lol I never thought of it but now I need answers too!

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This is a great question, my guess would be Sandpiper outsources to other airliners.. Relying on other carriers to handle tickets/bookings..

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That and if it's a pre-planned two way flight they might sell the ticket as a there and back kind of thing.

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This was also in the days of travel agents so a lot of the tickets may have been purchased that way. They may have just had a gate agent or 2 employed at each location, but that's it.

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You've probably stumbled into a plot hole. They DIDN'T have any other employees. Joe couldn't afford them. He couldn't afford a pilot when he was grounded so he hired Kenny for child labor allowance wages.

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I never thought of that either. I feel such a fool.

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WOW! That maybe the best question ever asked on a IMDB board. I never thought about it. If anyone has an answer, please share.

Spenser with an "S", like the poet.

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There are (or used to be) lots of little airlines, so there would clearly be some typical arrangement for ticket sales from, say, Boston to Nantucket. As xfilesbell says, they may have had an arrangement with one or more other airlines at other airports -- for example, a small one based in Boston that didn't offer flights to Nantucket could sell Sandpiper tickets instead, and in return, Sandpiper might sell tickets for their connecting flights. Unless they could make it funny, they'd have had no reason to show us how that worked, but there's no reason to think that it couldn't have worked.

So there's no reason to feel stupid for not thinking of it!

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