adventures in mada: Tempting the travel god's, one flight at a time

The Air Canada guy explains to me that it is Air France's responsibility and legal obligation to offer me a hotel for the night and food while I am in London. This is his british way of telling me that there are no flights for today. ... I ask him to put me on standby for all the flights for the next two days and book me for real on the Wednesday flight just in case nothing comes up. He says that when the flights are oversold the way they are, they don't accept standby ...