Originally Posted by
flyerCO
For DL at least they're entitled to best available. Other carriers may have other policies. Also there's differences between employee non-rev and buddy pass non-rev travel.
Right, but lots of standbys are from other airlines - it's easy enough for an AF employee to fly DL - or even other alliances - like an OS employee flying standby on DL - and then you have to pick the class(es) you want to standby for.