Travel Tips

The Pros and Cons of Flying Standby

Dan Kay
7 min readSep 20, 2023
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If you’re a frequent traveler, chances are you may have heard about the possibility of flying standby. If you’re not a frequent traveler, you may be wondering: what is flying standby, and why would I want to do it?

What Is Flying Standby?

Put simply, when flying standby, you don’t have a guaranteed seat. If there are…

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Dan Kay

Always adventurous. Occasionally political. I write creative stories about life, love, climbing and travel. thisisyouth.org