Southwest does charge for standby flights. If you are on a restricted ticket and desire to go on an earlier flight or miss your flight, you are charged the difference between your fare and the unrestricted fare. > For now only US and AA are doing this. Hopefully the other ones > will not follow suit. It's amazing that half a decade ago the > change fee was $50. 100% increase in 5 years is the best return > on investment :) > > Well, this will devert more and more customers to AirTran, JetBlue > and Southwest.. Godspeed to them...