FlyerTalk Forums - View Single Post - Standby cleared... and then renegged (in favor of an unaccompanied minor)

Aug 15, 2003 | 1:10 pm

#1

andymo99

Join Date: Aug 2001

Location: SEA - DL DM/3MM, *A Gold, SPG Lifetime Plat, some other car and hotel stuff

Posts: 5,648

Standby cleared... and then renegged (in favor of an unaccompanied minor)

I just received this email from my sister.

Quote:

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
So close, but so far........I got to the airport early, hoping to get on the 1 p.m. flight to Boston. I was on stand-by. I then got on the plane. Was almost seated when they called me back.....an unaccompanied minor was booked on that flight and finally made his way to the gate with the US Air personnel. So, off I went. Good thing I hadn't given them my luggage. So, now I am hanging around the Pitt Int'l Airport. My real flight is at 4:10 p.m. Oh well. </font>

I have never seen this before... an airline "renegging" after clearing you off the waitlist. Doesn't US wait to clear standbys until the point where they would otherwise not fill the seat? I guess that an UM creates more of an urgency to get the booked pax on the plane, but the experience seems very unusual. I don't fly US. Anyone seen this before?

[This message has been edited by andymo99 (edited 08-15-2003).]

Reply