Originally Posted by bluepig1

Ah, got it. I hadn't really internalized that's what "Priority handling in event of IRROPS, including next flight guarantee in case of re-accommodation" (from wiki) means. Cool, and perhaps next time I will push a bit harder on making sure I have the guaranteed seat. In order to have gotten me a seat on the departure that left full - they would have had to have bumped a confirmed passenger, irrespective of standby situation (and that just seems like a crappy thing to insist on). So maybe I'm being too nice but I'm just glad to have had the GS agent get me on the second flight (still leaving about 1.5 hours after my original flight).