Priority of Standby at Airport
 

Hi all, I would like to ask what's the priority sequence of CX/KA of standby at airport. Is it same as the one in the consolidated post about op-up?
And, would the fare class (paid / mileage redemption) affect the priority of standby? or it is a minor factor comparing to elite status?

Last time I did this in PVG, all the standby pax were gathered at one place, and then an agent came out and first asks for DM and GO members (surprisingly, no one stepped forward, I was only SL then.) Then, nope, she didn't asked for SLs next, instead she started to call out numbers (that were preassigned to us.)

Amazing! Thanks for sharing your experience. Would you mind telling me that when was it happened? say which month? Thanks again.

I have also done standby at PVG a few times, each time everyone was trying to move up to earlier flights since there were massive rolling delays. Was done exclusively by MPC status (not fare), OW was totally left out. They called out Diamond Plus, then Diamond (of which there were about 20 of us), then Gold (multitudes). Silvers were told they might have a chance but not high. Greens were told no dice. They filled the plane with the DMPs, DMs and part of the GO tranche.

We got a piece of paper with a # of on it. They used those #s to determine which GOs got onboard and which didn't. You got a lower # the earlier you showed up at the airport.

I standby quite often coming back from PVG and Fridays are absolutely terrible. More DM's and Golds than you can imagine and the later the flight the worst it gets. As mentioned before MPC status is key for priority order for standby.

Funny standby story:

Once I went to the airport at around 2pm to board a 3pm ish flight at PVG and my flight got cancelled. He proposed that I standby for the 4pm flight and I gave the gentleman at the checkin counter an evil eye for about a second and his manager came prancing out from the back and said "Mr Chung we have a flight leaving in 10 min and I can guarantee to get you on even if you need to check your bag in."

Much to my surprise, I found myself upgraded sitting in business, having arrived at the airport 20 min earlier. I could not believe that I left my office at 1:15pm and was on a plane by 2:15pm and in Central by 5pm.

I'm actually surprised they wouldnt do it to all MPC member (I may think OWs are over doing it esp if they need to wait to transit anyway, but a seat is a seat). given that they know they want every seat later that day.

Kind of hard to remember now, but it was summer time, few years ago.

Kind of surprise by this because that wasn't my experience at all. The lady only called for DMs and GOs and when no one stepped up I was hoping she would called SLs, but she didn't but instead called out numbers on a piece of paper for all of us like you said.

Also, don't know how she did it, but it wasn't by order of showing up either. I know a family of 6 was behind me and they got their seats before my number was called.

Think it has to do why the standbys occurred. Each time I've stood by at PVG it is due to long delays (those problematic problematic Chinese military ATC delays that are endemic to the Shanghai airspace), so everyone for the later flights showed up and realized the earlier flights hadn't taken off yet, so they tried to standby for the "earlier" flight (which is now probably taking off at the later flights' departure times). Hence each flight has basically all 200 people on the following flight standing by for it. It indeed is chaotic, but in my experience KA staff at PVG have a decent system figured out. Otherwise it would be chaos. Fridays are the worst of all...similar situation at PEK, albeit delays are less frequent there than PVG. Everybody is trying to get home before the weekend. When delays hit on Friday afternoon it sucks.

Thanks for all sharing. Since i probably have to standby at PVG and TPE, if my waitlist status is not cleared.

Do you or anyone know the # on the paper is the BN, or juz a random number, or based on others criteria?
Thanks.

Priority of Standby at Airport
 

I don't get it either. We were the first ones at the airport at 6am and when the check in counter opened here in Frankfurt at 10am we were the obvious priority waitlisted passengers. We didn't get the seats. We were told to come back the next day and it was the same situation. Today is our 3rd day to attempt to board CX288.

What's your elite status of MPC?

In both of your experience, does it matter if the ticket is redeemed or paid?

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Something happened for my friend: on a saturday after work at shanghai, I am going home with my coworker (who was travelin on a ID100 ticket) and got denied at check in, he then go to wait list counter for a sequence number. The number is a the earlier the lower basis.

When the previous flight closed for check-in same happened as other OP mention: DMP - DM - GO - OW EM - rest in sequential number. My friend didn't get though then he called his wife. I think his wife put him in some sort of priority and got cleared from HK for next flight out.