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Old Aug 15, 2008 | 4:02 pm
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Originally Posted by Spyder
So I guess I'm curious when the AA system would have registered that I boarded the 4:30 flight, whether I would have remained on the standby list and rolled over for any remaining flights if the 4:30 had not departed, and whether anyone has ever heard of flights being "targetted for cancellation."
A lovely and kind supervisor at LAX explained that one holds the confirmed reservation in the system until the standby boarding pass is scanned. This is different from the CO system which apparently releases the original reservation when the standby segment is confirmed. (At least that's the CO explanation I got at DTW last week.)

To think AA would hold the confirmed reservation until departure of the earlier flight is - curious.
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