Originally Posted by conroy

I thought I'd resurrect this thread since I had a similar experience last night. I'll clarify that I'm not super-angry or anything (well, it did cost me 2 hours, so I guess I'd prefer to know if I was screwed over), but I am curious since my experience didn't quite align with what was in this thread.

I was flying a leg from DFW->AUS last night (paid fare, I am platinum on AA). I arrived early on my connection so I tried to go standby on an earlier flight. One guy ended up ahead of me on the standby list - I presume an exec plat, and he cleared. Two AA employees in uniform were also on the standby list but lower down on that list. They ended up clearning (so position 1 was cleared, I was at 2, and then 2 people at position ~7 and ~14 cleared). I ended up not making the cut and having to wait for my later flight.

I presume these were either AA employees returning home(?) or spending the weekend down in Austin. I am curious if anyone knows the rules/policies for this situation and specifically if it is ever ok for the standby list to be processed out-of-order like this. Had I known, I would have not wasted 40 minutes standing there just in case I would have cleared.

Thanks,

Conroy