<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by satish_ny:
You are most likely not charged the $100 unless you are confirmed. I think the sequence would be:
1. You go the airport and let the check-in or gate agent know that you would like to standby for an earlier flight.
2. You are added to the standby list.
3. If you get confirmed, you are told to pay the $100 and your ticket is "reissued or revalidated" and a boarding pass for the ealier flight given.
4. If you do not get confirmed, you can either stand by for the next flight and repeat steps 2 and 3 or decide to travel on the flight you were originally booked on, in which case you are not charged the $100 anyway.
[This message has been edited by satish_ny (edited 09-07-2002).]</font>
Seems like a lot more work than the gate agent currently has to go through. I thought they were trying to "streamline" operations... be more like SWA and all that
