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Subject:	Re: Carryon vs. checked (Re: WTB: 6557 (really, really badly) and 6861
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Wed, 10 Mar 1999 14:30:50 GMT
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On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 04:32:33 GMT, Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote: > Steve Bliss wrote: > > > > Side note: you can also "fly on stand-by", which means you're the first > > to go if there isn't enough room. It's cheaper than regular tickets, > > but I'm not sure by how much. Or if you get less compensation if you > > are bumped to a later flight. > > I never fly on standby unless it's leisure and I don't care when I get > there. But I usually do care, so I never fly on standby. If you don't > get on, you get NO compensation. That's why it's called "standby" :-) But you do get a later flight (still stand-by, of course)? Or do you just go nowhere? Steve

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		Re: Carryon vs. checked (Re: WTB: 6557 (really, really badly) and 6861
(...) Eventually you will get where you are going. But you will have to wait until there is a flight that has seats available and all the "more senior" standbys have went. Theoretically, with perfect yield management, there never would be seats (...) (28 years ago, 10-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		Re: WTB: 6557 (really, really badly) and 6861
(...) Who, me? I have so many gray noses at this point I may actually sell one off!!! (gulp) and I only have two white ones, so it wasn't me, ok? We're TRACKing your insinuations and would prefer not to be RAILROADed through the court of public (...) (28 years ago, 5-Mar-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains, lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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