United Airlines Holdings, Inc.
Implement free standby for customers on day of travel
Delivered by the deadline
AI-assessed · human review in progress Found and assessed by AI from the cited sources. Shown with its evidence; it is not counted in any Kept Score until confirmed.
- Announced
- 14 Oct 2020
- Due
- 1 Jan 2021
- Delivered
- 1 Jan 2021
- Deadline
- Met
- Late
- Not met
- Today
What the company said
“starting January 1, 2021, any United customer can fly standby for free on a flight departing the day of their travel”
What we found
Evidence strength A What the grades mean
United Airlines confirmed in its SEC filings that it began allowing passengers to fly standby for free on the day of their travel, effective January 1, 2021.
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A United Airlines Holdings 10-K filed 2021-03-01
“effective January 1, 2021, United began allowing passengers to standby for free on a flight departing the day of their travel regardless of the type of ticket or class of service” ✓ confirmed on the page
Market reaction: the shares moved +3.3% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (26 Feb 2021 to 3 Mar 2021). What this measures
Checked 13 Oct 2026.
Commitment DNA
The structured record of this commitment. Fields the company did not state are left blank rather than guessed.
- Event type
- Product other
- Indicative materiality
- Low rules
- Action
- Implement
- Deliverable
- free standby policy
- In the company’s control
- High
- Specificity
- High
How this entry was checked
- Commitment recordedThe company's words were matched word for word against the filing.
- First checkAn AI model, Gemini (Google), read the company's later filings and recorded the outcome with a quoted passage.
- Second check: agreesA different AI model, Claude (Anthropic), re-read the evidence without being told the outcome and reached the same answer.
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