Tell the airport staff that you had AIDS and that if you don't leave soon you will do something crazy.
I was thinking about this the other day. How does one go about it? Just show up with luggage at the airport and say you want to travel on stand bye?
I have a buddy pass through united. It's cool to fly for free... But then there are times when you get stranded. 1 more flight! Still a chance!
I worked at Continental for 17 years and flew standby more times than I can remember. When planning a trip, you MUST check the return flights. That's what really matters. Trying to go DCA-IAH on Sunday during the summer is just asking for trouble. One time I got stuck at DCA on a Sunday and ended up flying DCA-CLE-IAH. Even if you view your Sunday flight the day prior and it looks good, keep in mind there are usually a bunch of standby folks who haven't listed themselves yet. When you get to the gate, it's like "Whoa, where did all these people come from?" And as you know, buddy pass are low man on the standby totem pole.
Ya. I was going to fly bwi, but there where only 2 flights. I'm in sales so I can manage my accounts from wherever tomorrow. There's a 6am flight with 30 openings so I should be good.
When working at CO, I made sure my "buddies" only flew when they had a good chance. If I knew their chances were terrible, no buddy pass. None of my friends ever got stuck. As an employee, you can look up how heavily flights are booked, what the no-show factor is and view the list of standby people. It wasn't rocket science to figure out what flights and lanes were good, bad and borderline.
Yep. Even if a lot of SAs roll over to tomorrow, not many will drive to BWI, especially that early in the morning. I did it once and that was enough. The drive is longer than most people think.
I use the fly together app. Problem is what 3po said. App showed 20 openings, then boom 37 standbys and I'm low man.
