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Airport Standby / Hanging around for a flight

  • 27-05-2017 7:40pm
    #1
    Nulty
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    From what little I understand of standby seats on flights is that they are used for customers who have already bought a ticket and would like to see if they can get on an earlier flight if possible.

    Does anyone have any knowledge or experience of asking for a standby seat without having a purchased ticket? Is it possible to purchase a ticket to a flight that has been sold out?


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  • #2
    endofrainbow
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    How could you purchase a ticket if the flight is sold out?


  • #3
    vicwatson
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    endofrainbow wrote: »
    How could you purchase a ticket if the flight is sold out?

    I thought most airlines oversell flights as a matter of course


  • #4
    athtrasna
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    Standby is used for other reasons too, people flying on crew friends and family tickets for one, people with flexible tickets and people who have been rerouted.

    Unless you have a flexible ticket airlines don't tend to allow people to take an earlier flight unless the later one is overbooked or you pay the difference in fare.


  • #5
    coylemj
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    athtrasna wrote: »
    Unless you have a flexible ticket airlines don't tend to allow people to take an earlier flight unless the later one is overbooked or you pay the difference in fare.

    There is a very narrow time window (just before the earlier flight closes) in which they will allow you on the earlier flight but they won't have time to take payment for upgrading your ticket, has happened me once or twice. Probably less likely to happen these days when a lot of staff at the ticket counters and check-in get a cut from gouging passengers for overweight bags and anything else they can think of.


  • #6
    Fred Swanson
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  • #7
    coylemj
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    Fred Swanson wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.

    +1 They'd have asked you for money to upgrade to 'club class' which gave you the flexibility to switch to an earlier or later flight, depending on how your schedule was running.

    In turn, if you had a club class ticket, not alone could you change flight time, you could swap between Aer Lingus and BA as they accepted each other's tickets so even though you had a return ticket with Aer Lingus, you could show up early in Heathrow, walk to the BA desk and they'd put you on their next flight to Dublin. And you got two snipes of champagne on each leg - whether you wanted them or not!


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