Originally Posted by
channa
It's also possible the GA would have done it had they realized your status.
Interesting that you mentioned that. The agent was handling my check-in at the time, so she should have seen my status, but... well, I must say that at the same station (MRY), I have had agents even pre-merger completely clueless about status.
Last year, I asked to go on standby onto a delayed flight, as I expected mine would also be delayed (and would lead to a misconnect). The agent kept insisting there was no delay shown, then when I pushed the point, said, "That will be $75." I had to explain--despite the fact he was looking right at my record at the time--that as a 1K, I did not pay the standby fee. I realized then that his reluctance to do standby was that he thought I was a GM or something and didn't want to get into an argument about the fee...
I had another agent there once say I would have to pay to check a 2nd bag (!) until I pointed out that yes, I was 1K.
I probably should have asked her something like you suggested!