Originally Posted by
MSPeconomist
Without status on DL, your options are either to change your ticket (be sure that it is reissued, not just the reservation changed) in advance or to call (or ask at the airport) three hours before the flight you want and ask to SDC for $50. Officially, standby is only allowed for elites.
I have an early April trip where my connection time in ATL was changed from 1:45 to 0:39. When I called DL to try and change it, I was told that's a legal connection in ATL (they are selling it that way on the website but I certainly wouldn't willingly book it!) and if I wanted to change I'd have to pay change fees and a significant fare increase. I hung up, called back a couple of days later and got the same answer. I presume that being that far out, it'll change again, and by the time it does I'll at least be FO and might be able to get something more favorable.