Originally Posted by
SSmith
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
When LGA has their cascading delays in and out of ORD (esp on Friday afternoons), anyone who was on the standby list for a prior flight but didn't get on, seems to get rolled over automatically onto the standby list for the next flight. (At least that's what the GAs were saying) Often you will also get people who put themselves onto an earlier standby list because they are trying to make a connection out of ORD and their original flight would miss it. Mother's Day weekend 2006 I was flying thru ORD to visit my Mom. Got on the next flight out and was #1 on the standby list as PLT; was sitting next to a kid in the boarding area (chaos; almost paid $50 for 1-day AC pass) who wailed into his cell phone that he didn't make it onto the last 2-3 flights and had actually moved
down the standby list from 60-something to #75.