Same day standby (New York - Toronto)
 

Trying to figure out if....

1. If they allow changing departure airport (EWR to LGA)
2. Stand by for a "later" departure

I've done earlier departures before (and always assumed it has to be earlier only), but never standing by later flight.....
Talked to the social media team and they say its permissible (subject to space availability).

Per my ticket - I'm on Economy Standard fare A class.

Has anyone tried same day standby from New York to Toronto for a later flight? What are your experiences?

IIRC you cannot standby for a later flight.

Because by the time the later flight gets processed it's too late to be on your original flight, so you can only standby early or SDC to early/later.

I think other FTers have done standby from YYZ/YTZ, but I can't remember if it was YTO as origin or as destination... maybe both...

Think about it. You standby for a later flight and you don't clear. What then.

Also, the idea of free standby is to allow an earlier flight that was about to leave with empty seats fill up so that the next flight has available seats for sale and misconnections.

Because AC's SM team is not made up of pros.

Also yes to OLCI SDC.

Also you're welcome.

Does OLCI offer SDC to later? I only remember seeing SDC to earlier flights.

OLCI will show you the next two flights. On a route like NYC-YTO, that means you're only going to get earlier options unless you do it really close to the check-in cutoff. But even then, you won't be able to move it 6 hours later.

On something like SFO-YYZ where there aren't many flights, you can generally change it to whatever you want.

Using OLCI, I'm not sure you'll see the options for a different departing airport although I do not have specific experience NY to Toronto.
- When I want to make a SDC from Montreal to Toronto, if booked YUL to YYZ, I do not get the earlier flight options to YTZ during OLCI. I make this change once I get to YUL at the Rapidair desk.
- Likewise, when I was booked to fly YYZ to YUL, and the forecast was calling for snow, I tried to SDC to an earlier flight departing YTZ instead but I had to go to YTZ to make the SDC (I live downtown so took the chance and went to and caught the earlier flight before the storm).

I've never been offered options for the other airport during OLCI when flying NYC-YTO and vice-versa.