Originally Posted by
mvoight
Are you sure about the 24 hours part?
I am trying to change seats for someone on AA615 (ORD-SNA) tomorrow and it wants $39 for 11D or 11E (and others), and it is well under 24 hours.
I just checked the policy
here and it looks like they are never opened up online for free, but it seems to imply that if there are no other available seats you will be assigned on at airport checkin for free.