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Dec 19, 2008 | 2:34 am

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Originally Posted by fooko2002

It's been interesting as I have had multiple opportunities to use the OLCI and standby for a flight on the day prior to my actual ticket but within the 24 hour window.

I have then on 3 separate occasions just gone to the airport the day before my scheduled flight and explained the online process and been able to standby for a flight.

I then had one bad experience after all of these where agents acted like I was crazy and that this was not allowed where I was not allowed to board. It took so long to explain and I was so upset about the situation I canceled the ticket and booked myself on a UA PDX-SEA flight. It was one of the few times I questioned my allegiance...lol

Had this happen with my dad... seems the agents think we do something illegal... and since the boarding pass is not in hand... we can't do it... (I did OLCI standby for my dad and he subsequently tried to get AS to print out a standby pass... but no go... the AS checkin agents in SEA refused... still need to contact SEA ops about that one...

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