Hi all,

I've got a question that's been answered many times for CO elites, but never (as far as I can find) for non-elites.

I just bought a B-fare on EWR-HKG for early June. Co.com let me reserve a seat in the front of the Y cabin, among the preferred seats, but the confirmation e-mail shows "--" instead of the seat number in the confirmation e-mail for that leg.

Does this mean that some sort of upgrade is being processed? I'm not elite on any *A carrier, but I do have lots of UA miles and was hoping to upgrade using those. Would upgrading through UA put me way in the back of the upgrade queue?

Your help here is much appreciated; this is my first time angling for an upgrade on CO.