Seeking advice: UA charged my parents for trying to standby for non-stop flight
Aug 28, 2008, 1:13 pm
#16
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Thank you all for your replies. I agree the problem is the route change for standby, I am just not sure whether it's legal standby or not. I guess it's depended on the good grace of the GA to allow change of routing standby.
By the way, I know for sure Canada is allowed for standby, as previous poster suggested, I have done it before when I flown SFO-YVR even between UA/AC metal. And I am pretty sure, even when you have International ticket, domestic portion standby is allowed.
Thank you all!
By the way, I know for sure Canada is allowed for standby, as previous poster suggested, I have done it before when I flown SFO-YVR even between UA/AC metal. And I am pretty sure, even when you have International ticket, domestic portion standby is allowed.
Thank you all!
Aug 28, 2008, 1:19 pm
#17
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Exactly. Making changes at TPE would hardly be "standing by"; it would be confirming a change, which is what appears to have happened. Standing by would involve getting on the list at the airport of departure.
If OP's family had gone to the SFO-YYZ gate, they could have stood-by per S*FAR/STANDBY.
If OP's family had gone to the SFO-YYZ gate, they could have stood-by per S*FAR/STANDBY.
Aug 28, 2008, 1:22 pm
#18
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When flying AAA-BBB-CCC, I've never had problems or been asked to pay a fee -- even as a GM -- when standing by for an earlier AAA-CCC flight. The tricky part is when you're booked AAA-BBB-CCC and want to standby for AAA-DDD, where DDD is a co-terminal of CCC. Sometimes this works, sometimes not. Many GA's know the "trick" of, say, booking SFO-ORD-LGA, then trying to standby for the p.s. nonstop.
Aug 28, 2008, 2:06 pm
#19
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Thank you all for your replies. I agree the problem is the route change for standby, I am just not sure whether it's legal standby or not. I guess it's depended on the good grace of the GA to allow change of routing standby.
By the way, I know for sure Canada is allowed for standby, as previous poster suggested, I have done it before when I flown SFO-YVR even between UA/AC metal. And I am pretty sure, even when you have International ticket, domestic portion standby is allowed.
Thank you all!
By the way, I know for sure Canada is allowed for standby, as previous poster suggested, I have done it before when I flown SFO-YVR even between UA/AC metal. And I am pretty sure, even when you have International ticket, domestic portion standby is allowed.
Thank you all!