Originally Posted by
onthesam
Not sure...
Your plan is to go to the gate and then voluntarily switch to a later flight if you don't get VDB? Am I missing something?
BTW that flight has 98 on the upgrade list with F showing full
Ya, that's the general idea
My OLCI VDB options were all for Friday morning. I live a pretty short drive from SFO (at least late at night when there's no traffic...) so it would be easy to hop back home and travel at a more civilized time. The VDB range was $800-1000 -- not bad for a quick SFO detour. Or I could just use the waiver from home and forego the VDB gambit.
In my experience, VDBs often get confirmed at the very last moment before boarding ends...which might be too late for a waiver flight change. Hence my question.
btw there are now 10 people on the standby list, and both cabins are full. But there's also a 12:40 am SFO-ORD, so my guess is that most of the standbys are booked on that flight, angling for the earlier one.