Been a while since I had an IRROPS situation with AA. Was going MSY-DFW-BOS yesterday evening. MSY-DFW gets delayed to the point of a misconnect. There were ORD and DCA flights going out earlier that were Y0, so I asked the GAs about standing by. First one said that I couldn't do that until my booked flight was actually canceled, since I was trying to change the routing. Second one said that if I wanted to stand by, I'd lose my seat on my current flight, and probably be SOL if I didn't clear onto the standby flight. Were the GAs correct?
Fortunately, noticed that there was availability through MIA and got home with no delay (and got the upgrade MIA-BOS
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