Airline Standby Tickets
Airline employees and some of their family and friends may also travel standby, often at discounted fares or free of charge. They usually have lower priority than regular passengers and are only allocated a seat after all passengers paying a regular fare have been allocated seats. It can even happen that an employee traveling standby takes his or her seat on the aircraft,
but is then asked to vacate it to make way for a regular passenger. Almost always, this must occur in person at the airport, and not over the phone. When the flight is boarding, any unclaimed or available seats will be given to those passengers on the standby list, who must wait at the gate to be called. Any passengers on the list who are not given seats are rolled into the standby list for the next flight. Passengers on the standby list are typically given priority based on how much they paid for their tickets and their relative status in the airlines
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