You cannot buy a ticket on every flight out?!?
 

To get home from Dallas I wanted to PURCHASE a full Y fare on the first 4 flights out of DFW on Sunday.

My original flights (5) home have been canceled so I call the elite desk to change my flight. In the process, the lady told me “I cannot book tickets on all the flights.” I told her I was not reserving, but buying the tickets. She just said I could not do that and that was the end of the argument.

My fear is that my flight will be canceled and I will be on stand by until late next week.

I realize I am taking the seats on the flights, but I need to cover my bases.

Any thoughts?

Redeem reward tickets...if you are platinum, you could redeposit with no fee.

Try CO.com. Web reservations have always allowed me to hold impossibly conflicting flights, without batting a digital eye.

I'm not as familiar with CO, but I know AA has a check to make sure you don't have conflicting reservations. But the only way they can really enforce this is with FF # (otherwise they may stop 2 John Smiths from flying at the same time). So if CO does something similar, just buy the Y tickets and don't give 'em your FF #.

The Super Dupe Snooper™ will get ya if you don't watch out!
 

All of that argument was for nothing – I ended up getting a ride to Houston today.

Now to see if my flight to SJU will fly tomorrow.

I have now learned a valuable lesson.