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Dec 18, 2018, 2:27 pm

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DevilDawg1960

Join Date: Sep 2009

Location: Durham, NC USA

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Originally Posted by Surgee

Hello! Quick question: I'm looking at booking a MileSAAver LIFO award. Day 1: ex-DCA, arrives into ORD at ~11:00pm, and connecting flight departs for LAX at ~6:00am next day (Day 2).
If I standby on an early enough DCA-ORD flight on Day 1 to make a pre-midnight connection ORD-LAX on Day 1, will AA allow this? Or would I have to overnight at ORD no matter what and only be eligible for ORD-LAX flights on calendar Day 2?

Thanks!
surgee

My experience in a situation similar to this (where two flight crossed two days) is that you can only standby for flight that correspond to the day of you originally schedule flight. Based on my experience what you want to do will not work.