Originally Posted by
stevenshev
I don't know why everyone is so sure that confirmed standby works here.
There are three separate questions here:
#1, and the most important, does confirmed standby apply to first class fares? Nothing we've seen indicates that it does, so, if it does, what class needs to be open? For Y, it's H. For F, it's ...
#2, can you do confirmed standby for a flight after your flight's departure time? Yes.
and, #3, can you do confirmed standby after having missed your flight. I'm not so sure that the answer to this is yes, and have yet to hear anecdotal evidence to that effect.
These are good questions.
As to #1, I would think it
could be done, but it would be interesting to hear FTers experiences with this. I know for a fact it can't be done on an
upgraded Y ticket. As it was explained to me at the time, there has to be confirmable space in your originally ticketed cabin before anything can be done about upgrading.
About #2, agreed. I've done it several times. ^
I don't know about #3, but I would tend to think not, at least not officially. Once you miss your flight due to your own fault, you're holding a ticket to nothing and go to the bottom of the heap (i.e., truly irrop-ed pax would be ahead of you). If the flight were wide open, maybe a 1K would get an "exception" and be booked into it straightaway, but I for one wouldn't want to risk it.