Thanks sbm12
 

I did everything just as you said and voila I am on the 11:30 flight EWR to MCO... I'm sitting in the PC thinking how helpful you have been.

What I was doing, before your advice, was checking COS by pretending to make new reservations. Each time I checked the COS remained Q.

Doing it your way, by checking in and then requesting a flight change, I was able to score the flight I wanted for free..

Thank you again
Marylyn

I just want to reconfirm something that I've read in this thread, because I'm trying to do similar:

So, I am ticketed on a flight BOS-EWR-PHX for a Tuesday. BOS-EWR leaves at 5p, EWR-PHX leaves at 8p.

Can I SDC the BOS-EWR to a 6a departure Tuesday morning, and the EWR-PHX departure to Wednesday at 7p?

i.e. does the SDC change effectively give +/-24 hours from the flight departure time?

And, I presume the answer to this is no, but if I SDC to the flight on Wednesday at 7p, can I SDC again to another flight after that, say Thursday am?

I believe that what you outlined -- is all doable!^

Sorry to tag on this thread, but I have a question about SDC and stand-by...

I'm on a flight booked in the cheap 'L' class and I might think about a SDC. Right now I'm flying A-B-C-D, where C-D is only operated once a day, and only on CO (no UA flights).

If I try to SDC on the website at 23h59 before the flight and there is L class availability (there is right now) on earlier A-B and B-C flights but NOT on C-D, will the CO website (or an agent) let me SDC on the earlier A-B-C flights and arrive into C earlier than I was scheduled for, but still awaiting the daily C-D flight?

Also, I think it's been answered a few times (from my reading) and if am on PNR with my wife (Silver Elite) but we split out the PNR for upgrade reasons, will she have to pay for the SDC, assuming we can do it?

Cheers - Thanks in advance, I'm still trying to learn all the CO ins and outs.

-jeremy

Airport agents don't have a problem doing that (especially within 3 hours fo departure).

The website won't let you do that. Phone agents should be able to handle it, but some don't know how to do it.

Per the rules, she will have to pay. But if you explain the agent the you were booked in the same itinerary and split for upgrade reasons, they might waive the fee.

Does anyone know if we can do 24 hr SDC on UA metal yet, or when that will happen?

This pretty much matches with my experience of trying to do what I had posted earlier in the thread.

I basically wanted to give myself more than 4 hours connection time in EWR so I could spend the day at the office. I could not find a phone agent who was willing to adjust just my BOS-EWR segment, leaving my EWR-PHX segment untouched.

Each one said I would have to pay $150 + fare difference because I was trying to spend longer in EWR than the fare rules would allow.

However, I had no problems getting on the 6a flight from BOS-EWR at the airport.

Furthermore, once I flew the BOS-EWR flight, then the website would let me adjust my EWR-PHX flight online to my heart's content. This ultimately allowed me to push back my EWR-PHX flight to the next afternoon which was the ideal for me, schedule-wise.^

If anyone has advice on how to get the phone agents to do what the airport agent had no problems doing, I'd really appreciate it.

But my lesson learned here is that it looks like you'll have to get the airport to do what you want to the first segment, but then you can do the rest online like normal once that is flown.

As an aside, having this waived, and the ability to do all of this online even after you've checked in is a huge perk from my perspective, and one that I would value greatly if AA would do as well. The online aspect combined with the +/- 24h window made adjusting my plans incredibly easy and removed a ton of the maneuvering that I ordinarily would have had to do if this were on AA.

So it looks like I can SDC on my UA flts with CO flt numbers for an earlier flt and I can also change the stopover city. As I would like to go LAS-EWR-BWI instead of the current routing I have I would imagine that I would have to do this with a phone agent as I think the SDC via CO.com is only on the same exact routing or am I wrong? I have done lots of SDC but they have always been on non-stops and always appeared as choices for earlier flts to change to.

Also, I will be CO Plat at the time. If my DH and I are on the same PNR would there be no fee for him as he would be viewed as a Plat also since he is on my record?

I can tell you what happened to me and I think it'll answer all of your questions.

First, I'm CO Gold. I had a direct flight from HNL-EWR on CO metal and at T-23, called and requested a SDC to a specific flight on UA metal that had a connection in ORD. My SO with no status was on the same PNR and everything went through paying $50 ($25x2) for the change.

If you'll be CO Plat, the change will be free for you. Good luck!