Serious question: Do you feel guilty when your airline status lets you jump others on the standby list?

I personally do, but not enough to give it up.

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D1 is salty because he got bumped by OP

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No but I feel pathetic when I post thinly veiled humblebrags about my airline status

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No. It’s earned for all the times I’ve missed a connection and slept at an airport or hotel near the airport. No mercy. Sweep the leg

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Nope the only time I wavered was when I took a slot which meant a family of four were screwed since there were only 3 seats left. I was nice and went to the united lounge for 2 hrs and let the family go home.

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Most of the people on the standby list are airline employees and their relatives flying for free

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Hell no. Gimme that delicious privilege.

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I am happy to let other people go if it means I get cash and a first class upgrade. I do that whenever I have time. +$1500 this year 😀

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No, the person flying 4 times a year I don’t feel bad for if they have to wait for the next one. I’ll have plenty of cancelled flights out of ORD due to a snowstorm or 3 hour tarmac delay in MIA as a thunderstorm rolls through.

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No guilt at all. I've bumped colleagues before. But plenty of times I've been bumped, thats life.

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You don’t need to feel bad, they let person with disabilities, veterans, kids under 2 to board ahead of you. You are ahead of the rest because you earned it.

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Nope

Nope. Never

Mc2 is exactly right. I used to work for one and used to anyways get bumped as non-rev pac

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