Originally Posted by cessnaflyr

Okay question from an outsider who’s used to seniority-based nonrev benefits:

What happens when your intended flight fills up and you have to switch to a different flight last minute, and then you’re clear at the bottom of the standby list? Sure, a 24-hour check-in system sounds great but in my experience of nonrevving, seat availability changes drastically within the last 24 hours until departure. So when you check in the day before the flight and are #1 with 15 seats open, but then the next day you wake up and it’s now oversold. So you’re stuck finding a backup plan, but now you’re dead last on every standby list that day because everyone’s already checked in 24 hours prior.

The seniority-based system can suck when ultra seniors list last minute and bump everyone, but I’m not sure that’s worse than automatically being behind everyone else when Plan A falls through and you have to change plans the day of travel. I’m assuming you aren’t allowed to check in on multiple itineraries at once so that you’re locked in for plans A, B, C and D?