Will same-day standby impact connecting flight?
Jan 18, 2020, 9:59 am
#1
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Will same-day standby impact connecting flight?
I purchased a ticket on AF and will depart this Wednesday. The outbound is IAH ->ATL -> CDG with a 1:17 connection time in ATL. The first leg is a codeshare with DL.
I received some advice in another forum which gave me confidence that I could make it from the arrival gate to the int'l terminal if I follow the signs and hustle.
I contacted AF about taking an earlier flight to ATL and they wanted $2700 to reissue the ticket. I looked on Delta's website and saw that they will do a same-day standby for only $75. Since my flight is a codeshare, can I do this? I'd really like the extra time cushion in case of delays in IAH, but I definitely do not want to do anything that will screw up my continuing flight to CDG! Thoughts?
I received some advice in another forum which gave me confidence that I could make it from the arrival gate to the int'l terminal if I follow the signs and hustle.
I contacted AF about taking an earlier flight to ATL and they wanted $2700 to reissue the ticket. I looked on Delta's website and saw that they will do a same-day standby for only $75. Since my flight is a codeshare, can I do this? I'd really like the extra time cushion in case of delays in IAH, but I definitely do not want to do anything that will screw up my continuing flight to CDG! Thoughts?
Jan 18, 2020, 10:08 am
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Make sure that your ticket remains intact and that you are not declared a no-show for your original flight, which would auto cancel your entire remaking ticket to Paris, including the return.
Jan 18, 2020, 10:39 am
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Thank you! So what is the best way to ensure that happens? If I wait to process the standby request at the airport (rather than doing it over the phone) and they hand me boarding passes for both flights, will that be sufficient?
Jan 18, 2020, 4:20 pm
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I might be wrong and you may want to check this on the DL forum but my understanding is that the $75 standby is for domestic (and assimilated, i.e. intra-North America) itineraries only, not for itineraries which include inter-continental segments.
Jan 19, 2020, 3:33 am
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To OP : do not worry. 1h15 in that direction is more than enough. I have made many times that kind of connection in ATL from the furthest gate of A or B concourses to the further end of F concourse (AF gate is usually F1 or F2) in 15 min gate-to-gate. Worst case scenario is AF/DL will rebook you on the next flight to CDG (there are 4 daily flights on this route).
Jan 19, 2020, 3:42 am
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I think you may be right.
Jan 20, 2020, 7:38 am
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Same-day confirmed or Same-day standby shall not be on an itinerary that has an international flight except US-Canada. As long as there is an international segment, we can no longer SDC, even for the domestic or transborder segment.
Talked to the check-in agent multiple times at YUL/YOW to Mexico or South America and they ALWAYS refused to SDC on any flights in the ticket.