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Old Mar 27, 2017, 3:19 pm
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Originally Posted by canadiancow
Here's a good one.

Book a flight, check in, select "standby" option in OLCI, pick an earlier flight.

You're now on the list.

Cancel check-in, and cancel the reservation.

You're still on the list.

This may explain why there have been a few:
ABC, D
ABC, D
ABC, D

It might not be family with the same first initial, it could be the same person.
Wow, so basically broken system?

I guess it should've been expected for AC IT...

So then, doesn't this feed off the DCS or something? Would that mean that people playing around with their flights could give the impression that a flight's wait list is huge when it isn't? Or make one give up on an SDC to another flight when they could've made it?
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