The phrase 'go standby' is not correct and not usable in written English.
It is a phrase that is used in aviation and means to transition from a working status to a non-working status. It is not closely related to the common phrase 'stand by.' For example, an air traffic controller might tell a pilot to "go standby" while the controller is busy dealing with another aircraft.
Yes, they had to go standby.
You can still choose to go standby without charge, which means waiting until everyone else has boarded to find out if there are seats on the flight you want.
With Northwest's "FlyNow" option, you can pay $25 to get a confirmed seat on a different flight leaving within three hours of the time you check in (for domestic flights only) or try to go standby without additional charge.
Waiting at various gates to go standby, I met other travelers in the same situation -- many of whom were fuming because Northwest, they said, asked for volunteers to give up their seats on overbooked flights in exchange for compensation, but would not accept those volunteers to make room for passengers who had missed connections.
Or I could choose from door 3 and WAIT for hours to see if I could go standby and maybe get to my house within 8 hours of my actual arrival time, but at least within the same time zone.
In its statement Southwest said that Mr. Smith, right, originally bought two seats for a flight from Oakland, Calif., to Burbank "as he's been known to do when traveling on Southwest" but went standby on an earlier flight, where only a single seat was available.
If tickets are sold out, risk it by going standby, or consider joining a guided tour that includes the painting as a stop.
If, for some reason, you can't manually make your Roku go into Standby mode, know that it will automatically go into Standby mode eventually.
He will go from standby to business class.
"We'll go on standby in the middle of July," Dalton said.
