Originally Posted by
xooz
The agent would not know. All I am saying is that as to the puzzlement that " ...we then apparently left with a couple people still on the standby list and not cleared for the flight, despite the app still showing something like four seats available.", one way that happens is that non-revs may be on the list but may have given up after standing by previously. They may have been retained on the standby list and not had themselves deleted.
I'm confused. In this scenario, the GA would have cleared them onto the flight as nonrevs, and they would have a seat assignement next to their "name" on the standby list, right? Would it be SOP for the GA to verify somehow that these people are at the gate before clearing them onto the flight?