Regarding the incompetence that is our gate agents....

I've now had my third experience of them clearing stand bys out of order. I don't believe its calculated, but stems from lack of training and airline experience in general. The fact that they don't have flight benefits, therefore don't understand the "game" can't help.

Any advice on how to deal with this? I stood and watched a buddy pass rider get cleared for a seat while a sixteen year flight attendant stood there arguing with the gate agent. "He's first on my list" was the only reasoning afent could come up with. Sure enough, the buddy pass rider got the seat. He got an isle, me, the dead header, got sandwiched in a middle, but I digress.

We used to have acces to the list and seat assignments on the frontier flight status page, but I don't see that anymore. Anyhow, just curious what others have run into and done that we can all learn from.