A-List Standby is free for ANY earlier flight starting March 8, 2017
Jan 22, 2019, 6:35 am
#166
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: ATL
Posts: 1,910
Maybe old news, but tried standby this morning for the first time in months; ATL-IAD. Hung around the desk for my name to clear. Line at desk was very long as SW cancelled flights into Boston due to icy runways. Started to worry if the GA would get to standbys, kept checking the list on the app. Just after T-30 and boarding started I saw I cleared on the app, and saw I had a new boarding pass in the app, name never called out, never needed a paper BP; looked like standbys cleared automatically?
Jan 22, 2019, 10:13 am
#167
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: SNA
Programs: Bonvoy LTTE/AMB, AmEx Plat, National EE, WN A-List, CLEAR+, Covid-19
Posts: 4,963
I'm not sure if it's manual intervention or the system doing it (but probably the former) but yeah, I just keep refreshing every couple of minutes and if you get the green checkmark, you should have a BP and head to the jetway door.
Jan 23, 2019, 2:49 am
#168
Join Date: Mar 2011
Posts: 6,286
An updated boarding pass pushed to your phone? That does seem to be a new development.
Flashback: A ways back I suggested this positive benefit of mobile BP's would eventually be implemented, during a conversation where some here could seemingly only perceive the negatives of mobile BPs. I even remember someone saying, with regards to WN's notoriously slow IT implementation, "Let me know when that actually happens."
Flashback: A ways back I suggested this positive benefit of mobile BP's would eventually be implemented, during a conversation where some here could seemingly only perceive the negatives of mobile BPs. I even remember someone saying, with regards to WN's notoriously slow IT implementation, "Let me know when that actually happens."
Feb 6, 2019, 12:04 pm
#172
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: MCI
Programs: Southwest A-List, AMC Stubs A-List, Chick-fil-A-List
Posts: 399
And how about standby for only the first segment of a connecting itinerary? In other words, take the first flight early and keep my original confirmed second flight in order to have a few extra hours in the connecting city.
Would I have to worry about the 4 hour maximum connecting time?
Would I have to worry about the 4 hour maximum connecting time?
Feb 8, 2019, 9:49 am
#174
Moderator: Hyatt; FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: WAS
Programs: :rolleyes:, DL DM, Mlife Plat, Caesars Diam, Marriott Tit, UA Gold, Hyatt Glob, invol FT beta tester
Posts: 18,889
And how about standby for only the first segment of a connecting itinerary? In other words, take the first flight early and keep my original confirmed second flight in order to have a few extra hours in the connecting city.
Would I have to worry about the 4 hour maximum connecting time?
Would I have to worry about the 4 hour maximum connecting time?
Cleared standby on the first flight, then on arrival, I went and asked to standby on the connecting flight. Had I been unsuccessful that would have meant spending ~8 hours in LAS, which would also have been ok with me
Feb 8, 2019, 5:20 pm
#175
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: ORD, MDW or MKE
Programs: American and Southwest. Hilton and Marriott hotels primarily.
Posts: 6,459
You did it, so that works - but I don’t understand how. Once you are issued a boarding pass on the earlier flight isn’t your old itinerary cancelled?
Feb 8, 2019, 5:49 pm
#176
Moderator: Hyatt; FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: WAS
Programs: :rolleyes:, DL DM, Mlife Plat, Caesars Diam, Marriott Tit, UA Gold, Hyatt Glob, invol FT beta tester
Posts: 18,889
Either way the potential long layover wasn't a problem though.
Feb 9, 2019, 2:10 pm
#177
Join Date: Jul 2013
Posts: 5,813
When you are moved to another flight and issued a boarding pass you old BP is cancelled. I had this happen on a flight which was first delayed the cancelled and finally reinstated.
Feb 22, 2019, 11:31 am
#178
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: SoCal
Posts: 619
I have recently taken advantage of this benefit for the first time.
On the website, the following language appears:
**On the day of travel, please see a Customer Service Agent at the airport for this benefit. Free same-day standby is not available at Southwest® kiosks. Free same-day standby will be provided for A-List and A-List Preferred Members traveling prior to the original scheduled departure, between the same city pairs, on the original date of travel, where a seat is available. On flights that do not meet these qualifications, A-List and A-List Preferred Members will receive priority standby and will be required to pay the difference in fare if a seat becomes available. If an A-List or A-List Preferred Member is traveling on a multiple-Passenger reservation, free same-day standby and priority standby will not be provided for non-A-List or non-A-List Preferred Members in the same reservation.
With regard to having to pay the difference in fare, are they referring to a situation where you are standing by for a different city pair and/or travel date? Just trying to understand if there is a potential of having to pay an increased fare for an available seat for the same city pair and date of travel.
On the website, the following language appears:
**On the day of travel, please see a Customer Service Agent at the airport for this benefit. Free same-day standby is not available at Southwest® kiosks. Free same-day standby will be provided for A-List and A-List Preferred Members traveling prior to the original scheduled departure, between the same city pairs, on the original date of travel, where a seat is available. On flights that do not meet these qualifications, A-List and A-List Preferred Members will receive priority standby and will be required to pay the difference in fare if a seat becomes available. If an A-List or A-List Preferred Member is traveling on a multiple-Passenger reservation, free same-day standby and priority standby will not be provided for non-A-List or non-A-List Preferred Members in the same reservation.
With regard to having to pay the difference in fare, are they referring to a situation where you are standing by for a different city pair and/or travel date? Just trying to understand if there is a potential of having to pay an increased fare for an available seat for the same city pair and date of travel.
Feb 22, 2019, 12:05 pm
#179
Moderator: Southwest Airlines, Capital One
Join Date: Sep 1999
Location: California
Programs: WN Companion Pass, A-list preferred, Hyatt Globalist; United Club Lietime (sic) Member
Posts: 21,618
Same date, same city pair has no add-in unless you no-show your flight and don't reach the departure airport desk within 2 hours of your scheduled departure time.
Mar 7, 2019, 12:25 pm
#180
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: SEA, but up and down the coast a lot
Programs: Oceanic Airlines Gold Elite
Posts: 20,378
