Originally Posted by studentff

I can understand why volunteering your seat for a standby pax would put you on standby yourself, but what about if both of you were on standby and you want to switch priority with someone else?

One night I was in the process of being stranded in ORD by Chautauqua incompetence (good weather day, many flights delayed by maint/crew or cancelled). My flight (last of day) was cancelled and I was trying to standby on the (oversold) earlier flight.

There were several other standby pax, one of whom was military trying to get home on leave. I would have happily traded my 1P position on the standby list with his. As it was, none of us got any seats, but I always wondered if they would have taken me up on an offer to give him the seat if they had called my name. I fear that they would have just boarded him on my BP and then had no knowledge of me the next morning.

Probably something that depends on the mood and skill-level of the GA I suppose.