Originally Posted by
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Instructions
1 Get a ticket for your American Airlines flight. The only way you can fly standby is if you take a flight earlier than yours and with the same route. If there is a connecting flight on your original flight, then you need a connecting flight with your standby flight.
Not accurate.
You can standby for later flights
You can standby for a nonstop, even if you have a connection
You can standby to connect through different cities.
One important thing not mentioned in the "instructions" on that website.
You must have elite status to standby.
It also fails to mentioned confirmed flight change, which is what is available for non-elites, and for elites who want a confirmed seat. You can now do this up to 24 hours in advance.