Originally Posted by
mersk862
I was told it was system issues between DeltaMatic and PARS.
It was an award ticket that I was on, where NW said that award ticket inventory needed to be available to be able to go on the NW metal nonstop (which there wasn't). DL's SDC rules don't make any difference to what type of ticket you're on - rev or award - if there's a seat left in that cabin (even if it's Y1), you can SDC onto it, no questions asked.
I'm pretty sure on the day of, you can standby and get on another flight with an award ticket even if award bucket is not open. The only time I've been denied standby was when plane was full. In my experience, rerouting would be the reason the GA would deny such request.
Did you try to BUMP on to NW?