this incident has passed but it made me wonder this is what occurred to some friends of mine they had book a flight from OGG to Lax at 2:54pm (Dec 12) (on American) but due to a mix up they missed their flight by 10 minutes American told them the next flight wasn't until 10:30pm that night (eight hours later) and they were told there were no other airlines flying to Lax so when they got home and told me of this I did some checking and found ATA had a flight departing OGG at 3:30pm so it made me wonder if my friends could have flown ATA back to lax instead of waiting for 8 hours (anyway they still had to pay $100 to change their tickets anyway) now of course the ATA flight could have been full or its possible it was not operating on Dec 12 so my question is could my friend have flown on ATA instead (if AA had endorsed their tickets)?