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Old Oct 6, 2011 | 10:53 am
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Originally Posted by cblaisd
I'm interested to know what you suspect the 1pm gate agent did wrong -- or what I did wrong.
I don't think you did anything wrong.

Originally Posted by cblaisd
I've always been told that if you decline a standby seat your original confirmed seat stays confirmed and your order on the upgrade list for that confirmed flight is unchanged.

Obviously neither was the case this time.
I suspect the second failure was a result of the first. When your reservation was reinstated, you were then checked in for the 4PM flight, and that's when your DM time would have been set the second time around.
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