Airline Standby Tickets

Airline Standby Tickets are where you pay for the travel, but you cannot book a seat on any flight. You wait for an empty seat to grab at the last moment.

You have a ticket of sorts - a cheap, cheap air ticket. But you must wait for a flight that's about to take off and which still has an empty seat.

Then, if you're waiting patiently by the flight desk when a seat comes up (which usually means a booked passenger misses their flight), your Standby air ticket permits you fly in that seat which would otherwise have gone empty.

How long you have to wait for an empty seat will depend on the season of the year, and how busy the airline is on the day.

Airline standby tickets are usually reserved for people in the industry. That's one way the airlines reward their own employees with cheap air fares. Not just their staff, but employees of sister airlines, travel agencies and the like.

If you have some kinds of credentials and a convincing story, you might be able to qualify for a Standby airline ticket as well.

You never know your luck in the big city, eh? There's certainly no harm in trying for an airline standby ticket.