Immediately after US announced the fare changes, if someone continued buying tickets out of loyalty, they were thus punished (taken from a front page article on msn.com):

"Originally, US Airways had tried to get rid stand-by passengers altogether by announcing that tickets would lose their value for any flight except the flight listed on the ticket. After being barraged by angry e-mails, the airline reversed itself, quietly instituting the $100 stand-by fee late Friday for travel beginning Jan. 1. However, those who bought their tickets after Aug. 26 for travel before Jan. 1 are going to fall between the cracks. The new rules were loaded into US Airway’s system on that date and not taken out until September 6, so there’s no stand-by available for those unlucky flyers. They will have to pay for entirely new tickets should they try to “stand-by” for an earlier flight."

They probably could be nicer to those people who bought tickets between the 27th and the 6th.


[This message has been edited by nawlinsdoc (edited 09-09-2002).]

[This message has been edited by nawlinsdoc (edited 09-09-2002).]