Originally Posted by
Pucnit
It depends on the fare rules of your ticket. Your tickets fare rules will dictact what connections points are allowed and if those connection points are allow you should be able to fly standby through those connecting cities.
I thought that there was another rule that you had to follow too for this to be allowed (booking class availability on the changed routing flight??) but I cannot remember it exactly.
The night before the flight, I informed AA that I would miss my flight and would go stand-by. At MIA, the TA told me that all the non-stop flights to LGA were full and there was no way that I would get on any of them.
HE suggested that I put myself on the stand-by list to ORD and then onto LGA. He also said that the first flight to ORD (at 2:25) was oversold but that I would probably get on the next one (at 3:30).
I got on the flight at 2:25. There were 7 empty seats. The flight from ORD to LGA had 45 open seats.
No big surprise that oversold flights go out w/empty seats but thought that some FT readers would be interested in the follow-up.