Originally Posted by
tommy777
The same-day flight change option will be available within 24 hours before your original scheduled flight. Inside of this timeframe, you can try to take an alternate flight so long as it departs no more than 12 hours from when you are making the request.
So if I understand this correctly: If I have a flight tomorrow at 8AM and want to go today at noon, I can by just paying 25 bucks?
This is a brand new fee in the industry and totally changes the rules. I'm sure others will follow...
I just wish they would exempt Plats.
It is not a new fee. They increased the fee (from $25 across the board for confirmed standby, now raised to $25 Plat/Gold, $50 Silver/Non) and increased the window of opportunity (used to be same calendar day flight with request made within x hours of flight).
In doing so they took away the free same day standby (note that the new fee is not for standby, but rather for getting a seat... you standby for free, but the second they confirm a seat for you, they ding you for the $25/50) that pretty much nobody else in the industry offered.
I don't expect to see a lot of airlines follow because they didn't follow the $25 confirmed standby prior to the change and this is, in reality, not that big a change from before. ETA: Plus, while it's a fee increase and kind of a wash regarding less restrictive/more restrictive policies for CO, adopting such a structure would be a fee decrease and a less restrictive set of policies for pretty much all other airlines, and therefore not the direction the airlines are going.