<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by transpac:
It seems odd to me that you would wish so much misfortune on so many others so that you and your daughter can obtain upgrades.
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I think G2 is just kidding
In any case, the fact that flights are overbooked can partially be explained by large amounts of misconnects due mainly to weather, so you may never know - a big storm could roll through.
A list of what might happen:
- SFO-NRT could get cancelled and all those passengers going to SIN or HKG via NRT would be protected on the SFO-HKG nonstop.
- Passengers going to HKG/SIN on UA 869 may be stranded/delayed one way or another due to weather issues in other cities (as G2 "wished"!)...
That is why travelling non-revenue standby as employees can both be great, and a big hassle. One infamous flight is UA 938 ORD-LHR at the 9pm hour. This is the third and last flight of the day to LHR from ORD and is considered by many to be the trickiest to non-rev on because any misconnects on the earlier two flights will be put on the last one, and any cancellations or signifcant delays on UA 958 and 928 earlier may put passengers on UA 938.
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