Originally Posted by
ijgordon
If they know they will NEED the seats later in the day (because of some IRROPs or pending weather or whatever), there's a good chance they will waive the standby fees. But they're not going to do it because YOU think someone else will book your vacated seat at a last-minute sky-high fare (which by the way, isn't even a given these days).
this. If AA needs or anticipates needing the later flight they may proactively move you or be willing. The likely situation is the early flight and later one are both Y7+ which means barring a blue moon, the later flight is available for last minute bookings.
Those who want to go with pay 75 or wait. This applies to non elites only too.
also I booked IAH-DFW-SFO 2 days ago for yesterday for 78 USD.
could not believe it.