Originally Posted by
Tony Stevens
Hi, I am wondering if one is required to make the first leg of the trip in order to maintain their D1T status? It seems like people are tricking the system by listing themselves on a two leg trip then just skipping the first leg (because they aren’t even in that city and weren’t planning to be) in order to get ahead of D1s in priority. So my question is if you don’t get on leg one, are you dropped from D1T to D1 and behind all the D1s that have checked in already? There are 17 D1Ts listed for the flight I want tomorrow. Which I find incredibly hard to believe. I’m listed as D1, but if all I have to do is add a first leg to the trip to be a D1T, what keeps me from it?
Two comments.
First, it's a violation of the rules in the Travel Guide and the quickest way to permanently lose your pass privileges.
Do not list and check-in for a flight in an outlying city for the sole purpose of obtaining through status.
Secondly, you are added to the priority list on the second flight only when the boarding pass for your first flight is issued. If you skip the first flight, you won't be on the standby list for the second.
If you absolutely positively have to get somewhere, buy a ticket and use your AA20 discount.