Originally Posted by
prhs1989
I just had a thought.
There is a 9:00 flight that still has about 15 seats open. If I get to the airport and check in early, can I put my name on standby for that flight, even though I plan on taking the 7:30 flight? If I can do the former, who would get priority in the event of a cancelation: passengers on standby or passengers who are rebooked from earlier flights?
You're suggesting standing by on the 9p flight in case your 7:30p gets cancelled, right? This is commonly known as "being protected on a later flight" and is something that, in my experience, CO is not particularly happy to do. I've managed to convince some CSRs to do it, but not without much difficulty. They pretty much frown on giving you two seats when they know you're only going to use one of them and they feel they might be able to sell the second, even if the chances of selling it are slim.
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