Originally Posted by
WineCountryUA
And day of travel -- just need any seat in Y to be available.
The down side of waiting will be the lack of a preferred Y seat.
But if any passenger in Y is waitlisted for an UG, wouldn't you get their seat with the D/G (at least if you waited until the GA was controlling things)?
And it'd be likely whoever was at the head of the UG queue was in a "preferred" seat?