Elite Flying Question For Resident Birdwatcher Extrordinaire (FFF)

[SkinnyBenny]

   


Hokay Fatty, I know you love you some airports.  Got a couple questchs for you since I know you watch the DFW-MHK flights obsessively.  Here's the deal: I'm scheduled on Friday, 09/04/09 to fly from Baton Rouge (BTR) to DFW at 4:00 pm.  Then the flight from DFW-MHK from 7:15-8:45.  However, I want to change that.  

Ideally, I now know that I can actually spend a couple days in Manhattan more than I'd planned.  Would it be wicked expensive for me to change my flight into MHK to be a couple days sooner?  Like maybe tomorrow (Wednesday) or even Thursday?

 At worst, I'd like to get on standby so I arrive in MHK Friday afternoon at 3:15 instead of 8:45.  But to do that means I'd also have to be granted standby status on the earlier morning flights from BTR to DFW.  Is there some link you can give me that I can bookmark and check obsessively to see if it would even be worth my while to try to get standby for those?  I need your airport website navigational expertise here.



BTW, FWIW, BTR's airport is not bad.  It has two somewhat tiny terminals, which means there aren't many restaurants or bars.  But that just means it's good for getting reading done!    Which is actually too bad because it means you have to read.    But at least getting through security isn't a hassle and doesn't take forever!    ...Which means you just have more time to sit at your gate.    But on the bright side since it's so relatively small, parking is cheap   and you don't really have to be all   about terrorists.

[fatty fat fat]

skinnybenny, here is my confession.

I've been on airplanes three times my whole live's. THREE!   

I'd give anything to have one of those "airline problems" people always bitch about.

[hemmy]

^ JFC, you seemed like an expert.  I have been on way more than that.

[fatty fat fat]

^ JFC, you seemed like an expert.  I have been on way more than that.

yeah, they've been mci -> seattle, portland and sfo.

Sometimes it's just pathetic, really. 

[Rick Daris]

Ideally, I now know that I can actually spend a couple days in Manhattan more than I'd planned.  Would it be wicked expensive for me to change my flight into MHK to be a couple days sooner?  Like maybe tomorrow (Wednesday) or even Thursday?

At worst, I'd like to get on standby so I arrive in MHK Friday afternoon at 3:15 instead of 8:45.  But to do that means I'd also have to be granted standby status on the earlier morning flights from BTR to DFW.  Is there some link you can give me that I can bookmark and check obsessively to see if it would even be worth my while to try to get standby for those?  I need your airport website navigational expertise here.

there are a couple of ways you can go. you can do a confirmed flight change within 24 hrs of your current flight. you do this by calling american airlines and pushing buttons until you talk with an employee. i believe the confirmed flight change is fifty bucks.

you can also just fly standby. to do this you really need to carry on your luggage. don't check anything. the people on the phone are not suppose to tell you how many empty seats there are for flights but most will if you ask really nice and explain that you are new at this and stuff.

you could also have a friend who works for AA check their in house system and he could tell you exactly how many empty seats there are but you do not have such a friend. sorry here.

in all honesty i'd just call. the people they have on the phone are very good. i'd also join AA Advantage online if you haven't already. i think this helps you get better service when you call.

[mjrod]

^ JFC, you seemed like an expert.  I have been on way more than that.

yeah, they've been mci -> seattle, portland and sfo.

Sometimes it's just pathetic, really. 

LOL.

n00b..

[Pike]

^ JFC, you seemed like an expert.  I have been on way more than that.

yeah, they've been mci -> seattle, portland and sfo.

Sometimes it's just pathetic, really. 

I was on 8 different planes this summer alone