So, last Friday afternoon (5/18) I'm flying from LGA to ORD. Typical LGA mess: weather earlier in the day, LGA running flow control, terminal full of semi-irate pax, Admirals Club full to capacity. Anyway, I head down to my (90 minute delayed) flight and take a look at the info board. The standby list is 84 pax deep. I don't think I've ever seen it go that high.

The question - how deep does it go? Does the GA have control to keep adding names or is there a hard stop somewhere in the system? 84 standby pax for an MD80 seems a bit perverse.

Steve