Is it possible to standby for red-eye (11:45pm) with next morning ticketed flight?
Oct 24, 2013, 10:58 am
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Is it possible to standby for red-eye (11:45pm) with next morning ticketed flight?
This is officially my first post on this forum, though i have followed it religiously for years. My question has been addressed before, but was wondering if anyone had any more recent experience. I got a steal on a netsaavers deal this weekend to SFO from ORD. Actually, I'm doing ORD-DFW-SFO-ORD for segment purposes ($11 for the extra segment). I'm booked on the 5am flight back to ORD on Monday. I am wondering if I would be wasting my time by getting to the airport early and attempting to standby for the 11:45pm flight. I wish they would just change the flight to 12:15am similar to the DFW red-eye. I've traveled this route several times this year and this flight usually hits ORD 30-45mins early anyway!!
Oct 24, 2013, 11:03 am
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This is officially my first post on this forum, though i have followed it religiously for years. My question has been addressed before, but was wondering if anyone had any more recent experience. I got a steal on a netsaavers deal this weekend to SFO from ORD. Actually, I'm doing ORD-DFW-SFO-ORD for segment purposes ($11 for the extra segment). I'm booked on the 5am flight back to ORD on Monday. I am wondering if I would be wasting my time by getting to the airport early and attempting to standby for the 11:45pm flight. I wish they would just change the flight to 12:15am similar to the DFW red-eye. I've traveled this route several times this year and this flight usually hits ORD 30-45mins early anyway!!
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Oct 24, 2013, 11:04 am
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Welcome to Flyertalk. 
I don't have any recent experience because the answer is, as you point out, No, you can't stand-by the day before, and thus, I've never showed up at the airport on the day before my flight hoping to stand-by. AA's free stand-by policy is for "same-day" flights.
What about the $75 confirmed flight change?
I don't have any recent experience because the answer is, as you point out, No, you can't stand-by the day before, and thus, I've never showed up at the airport on the day before my flight hoping to stand-by. AA's free stand-by policy is for "same-day" flights.
What about the $75 confirmed flight change?
Oct 24, 2013, 11:09 am
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Oct 24, 2013, 11:18 am
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And very annoyingly the CFC day is a calendar day and not AA's usual 6 am to 6 am day. This means that if you're on the flights to DFW from LAX or SFO that leave a few minutes past midnight you can't change to anything earlier.
Oct 24, 2013, 11:28 am
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Cheers.
Oct 24, 2013, 11:46 am
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I have done it before but it all depends on the GA. Get your boarding pass for the morning flight and go to the gate. Ask the GA politely to put you on the standby list.
Oct 24, 2013, 11:51 am
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Oct 24, 2013, 1:20 pm
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What do you plan to do if you do not clear? Hang out in terminal 2 all night with everything closed
Oct 24, 2013, 1:59 pm
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Waking up at 2am to be at the gate on time is almost as bad as taking the chance!
Oct 24, 2013, 9:50 pm
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I recently did clear standby for a 7pm flight LAX-DFW when I had a BP for 12:15 am flight to DFW. I was connecting from PVG and showed up 30 mins early at the gate
Oct 24, 2013, 10:25 pm
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Several years ago I was flying on 1/1 las-dfw-lga, dep for las-dfw was 11:55 pm, connecting to a 8 am flt to lga (the next day).
I was able to get on a 6 am flt from las to dfw. [same day standby--so legal.] When I got to the AC in dfw and inquired about going standby to lga, the agent noted "you're supposed to be flying tomorrow", but after speaking to the GA for the next available flt. to lga: "they are holding a fc seat for you...start running
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I was able to get on a 6 am flt from las to dfw. [same day standby--so legal.
] When I got to the AC in dfw and inquired about going standby to lga, the agent noted "you're supposed to be flying tomorrow", but after speaking to the GA for the next available flt. to lga: "they are holding a fc seat for you...start running"
Oct 30, 2013, 10:25 am
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For those that are wondering if it worked....... I had absolutely no problem getting on the standby list, but unfortunately in the end there was only 1 available seat and a "distressed" passenger knocked me from the #1 spot at the last moment. Though I didn't enjoy spending the extra 5 hours in Terminal 2, it was worth the shot!!!
Oct 30, 2013, 10:35 am
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Thanks for the report back. I did a fair number of redeyes back when AA was at SFO T3, and periodically heard people asking to do the switch--usually from a connecting SFO-DFW-ORD redeye to the SFO-ORD non-stop redeye. My recollection is there wasn't a lot of success; typically, the TAs or GAs would note the same-day restrictions.