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?
If you get cancelled, you can get confirmed on any flight with space in that city pair or comparable city pairs (e.g., IAD/DCA/BWI-EWR).
How do you know there are 15 seats open on the flight? Counting seats on a seatmap is never accurate.