Sentence examples for went standby from inspiring English sources

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.

You'd go standby.

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.

If tickets are sold out, risk it by going standby, or consider joining a guided tour that includes the painting as a stop.

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.

If I went on standby I might not have made the Olympics and that was one of the highlights of my career.

A Photogenic Moon The Galileo spacecraft's final flyby of Jupiter's moon Io in January may have fizzled; the craft went into standby mode because of radiation.

Ole Pedersen, a hospital spokesman, said the hospital went on standby immediately after being notified of the crash, when hospital officials meeting to discuss a response to a biological terror attack could see smoke rising from the crash site.