[Responsibility2nd]

See post 29.

As I understand ‘standy’, you will be boarded and seated if a fully booked plane has a ‘no-show’.

Evidently she was boarded. She was on the plane. Per the article; she was asked to leave the plane.

If you’re on a plane, then yeah. You DO have a reason to expect to fly.

Unless SWA has an idiot policy that allows latecomers to hold up 100 + people and board at will.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

As I understand ‘standy’, you will be boarded and seated if a fully booked plane has a ‘no-show’.

Evidently she was boarded. She was on the plane.

I really don't know if there are legal or industry-wide standards for "standby" or if each airline makes up it's own rules. This big kid did show up, though he/she was late. I don't understand why a standby passenger would think they had a complaint simply because they got seated before a booked passenger showed up.

Whenever I've been forced to try to get onto a fully booked flight, I don't consider the seat mine until the doors close and the plane pulls back from the jetway, since I didn't book the flight before all the seats had been sold.