Standby to another bay area airport?
Mar 6, 2011, 8:27 am
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Standby to another bay area airport?
Sorry if this has been discussed before or is obvious, but wondering if on the first leg of a flight to the bay area, I could standby on an earlier flight to another bay area airport (SFO vs OAK, for instance).
Mar 6, 2011, 10:39 am
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According to alaskaair.com
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Your routing must remain identical to your currently ticketed flights - meaning the same origin, destination, thru and connection cities. Co-terminal changes are not allowed
Mar 6, 2011, 1:27 pm
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That's Same-Day Change. This is NOT true for standby- I've switched around all the time between LAX/BUR/LGB by showing up at the airport and requesting it (and cleared into F, to boot). It's an great feature to have when you want to be at the different end of LA than the one you originally booked.
Free standby is Gold or 75K only now, though. (Technically, I believe what happens when you are standing by for a co-terminal flight is the ticket is reissued without charge day-of-flight.)
That being said, I don't know if AS will do that if you are CONNECTING. OP, are you connecting in the Bay Area?
Free standby is Gold or 75K only now, though. (Technically, I believe what happens when you are standing by for a co-terminal flight is the ticket is reissued without charge day-of-flight.)
That being said, I don't know if AS will do that if you are CONNECTING. OP, are you connecting in the Bay Area?
Mar 7, 2011, 2:49 am
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If that's true, that blows the idea out of the water that AS can't allow routing changes when doing SDC because it requires a ticket reissue. If agents can do this, they should be able to do SDCs involving routing changes. It ends up being a similar process for the agents either way.
Mar 7, 2011, 6:04 pm
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Not connecting. Originating in Seattle and going to OAK, but there is an earlier flight to SFO and that works too....I'm Gold BTW.
If that's true, that blows the idea out of the water that AS can't allow routing changes when doing SDC because it requires a ticket reissue. If agents can do this, they should be able to do SDCs involving routing changes. It ends up being a similar process for the agents either way.
Mar 7, 2011, 6:26 pm
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Mar 8, 2011, 2:22 am
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I would look at this thread.
RASMguy is an AAG employee (AS/QX route planner). As, of course, is Missy.
RASMguy is an AAG employee (AS/QX route planner). As, of course, is Missy.