Originally Posted by
Francesco_2102
Also, I’m a little confused about the reason/cause for so many standbys in the flight place. The flight’s already full, so there’s little chance of clearing people right? Are most of these people likely to be:
- non-revs or family of the crew, etc?
- passengers in overbooking?
- crew for the return/other flights?
- passengers on other itineraries who choose to standby for this flight “just in case”?
It could be any or all of those. Also, did they cancel or down-gauge an earlier flight on the route which then has a cascading effect on all other flights on the route that day? IE: the first YYC - YYZ flight today was cancelled so all of a sudden the next 3 or 4 flights get zeroed out in all classes as they try to move those people to YYZ.