Originally Posted by
hw711
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?
Did not want to do BUMP simply because it was the outbound of my trip - everything I had read about BUMP was warnings on using it on the outbound. I wanted to stick with my LAS-SLC-MSP itinerary on the way back since I could take a 430p flight with a connection, rather than nonstops at 2 pm or the redeye and didn't want to risk anything with that flight.
It sounded more like an issue with getting the ticket over onto NW - if I had been on a later NW nonstop, it most likely would have worked, though gone to standby (since NW won't do FlyNow if the flight is overbooked - DL will do SDC if it is overbooked, it's based on inventory for sale, not physical seats sold vs. seats on the plane).