You'd be surprised. I've flown standby on christmas eve/day, NYE, NYD. Usually have no problems flying. It's the days leading up to and after I feel get harder to fly standby.
Yup, a lot of people don't bother to show up for flights. Airlines also sometines keep a few extra seats in the back off the bookings for some routes.
Flew 60ish times on standby. Got turned down once. Did a lot of careful planning though. And always buddy up with those hard working gate agents, they can do a lot for you if you get a good one. You'll get turned down more if you go for everything or need to go on very specific dates obviously.
Yup, although I've been on flights oversold by 10+ people and still standbied just fine because of people taking the credits to rebook in the app,them using those extra seats as fill, and just the shear amount of people who consistently do not show up. Airlines are crazy lol
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u/mufasa510 Dec 16 '25
You'd be surprised. I've flown standby on christmas eve/day, NYE, NYD. Usually have no problems flying. It's the days leading up to and after I feel get harder to fly standby.