Originally Posted by alberp
I recently had a very aggrivating problem with this rule. In may I flew from Denver to Vegas for a wedding. I booked my tickets a few months in advance, before TED had taken over the service. I got to the airport with plenty of time to checkin, except the changed my flight time by 20 minutes. So when I went to check in, it was 40 minutes until the new flight left, and I was denied boarding. I was forced to fly standby, and had to wait 7 hours until I was able to squeeze on a flight. The Premier ticket counter, and the gate agents treated me very rudely. Fortunately I found some customer service agents on concourse B at DIA who were sympathetic, but still couldn't do anything. I didn't even have any checkin luggage!
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Mad
I don't know if you tried this or not....but what about accepting the bp (or DM if necessary) for the later flight and then heading directly to the gate for the original flight asking to be put on its standby list? Pre-online check-in I ended up running too late to catch my flight and missed the cutoff. CSR gave me a bp for the next flight, I hustled through security and sprinted to my original flight's gate & they cleared me for the flight (I was a 1P at the time, so no extra treatment as a 1K on that one). I've several times checked in for my original flight before the flight scheduled to depart prior to mine, and then put myself on the standby list for the earlier flight even though it was only 30-40 minutes prior to departure (scheduled), and then cleared the SB list.