Originally Posted by
MSPeconomist
I suspect it won't work because the flight is full and DL is no longer willing to sell tickets, but have you tried to do a dummy booking when checked in to see whether upgrade and "upgrade" (to FC and C+ respectively) inventory is currently available?
Obviously there cannot be 24 C+ seats available if only 11 show on the seat map, but DL could be in the middle of an aircraft change.
Yeah, I couldn't pull up this flight on the DL website - I only knew about it because I remembered that it's one of the only 767s they operate on the HNL- LAX route. There are about 18 people on the standby list, which I suspect are the other passengers who didn't want to wait for the delayed 7:00 AM.
I would have just waited for the delayed flight, but it would've gotten in to LAX too late to make a connection to SFO (the last DL flight leaves at 9:00 PM and we would've gotten in around 10:30 PM without any further delays).
With these amounts of seats "available" it's really mind boggling to me that they would rather book me on another airline all together than put me on the scheduled 10:00 AM. But I guess that's why I don't work for an airline
