Originally Posted by
seawolf
AA stock has little bearing in the whether the ticket can be standby or not. It only means ticket# starts with 001 nothing more. One can buy a CX fare on 001 stock and it would have the same rule as one issued on CX stock.
It does have some bearing on how flexible a GA may be on what they would do. Once on a MAN-LHR segment, I wanted to take an earlier flight (AA 001 stock, BA metal of course). The comment was that while my fare didn't allow standby, she normally would have just exchanged my ticket for the early flight anyway had it been on BA stock, but since it was AA's stock she couldn't/wouldn't do anything for me. YMMV