Originally Posted by Jet Yi
Things used to be much easier before all employee ticketing went electronic. When all employee tickets were paper, the different types of tickets and their BPs were easily discernible. Now we must rely on the GA to enter BPs correctly and then to process the DM list appropriately.
Standby requests for revenue passengers are still dependent on manual entry by a CSR (BP5A/5B depending on the situation), but employee travel BPs are assigned automatically. Actually - things are a
lot better now that employee travel *has* gone electronic (we call the program eTravel). Manual entry of boarding priorities at check-in has gone the way of the dinosaur, as each traveller along with their electronic travel authority has the BPs listed in the authority by operating carrier/system.
Upon check-in, the ACI system cross references the employee number with the respective travel authority, assigns the correct boarding priority/seniority date and adds them to the DM list automatically. Absolutely no need to assign manually unless it's an employee of a non-UA/UAX airline, in which case it's still a paper ticket anyways.
In response to the OP - if your original flight was cancelled, and you were on standby as a BP5B (other revenue standby), you would be entitled to a BP5A (disserviced passenger) standby priority upgrade, but you would have to make contact with an airport CSR to make this change.
Happy Travels!
