So I purchased some tickets on united today and then called to get seating assignment in economy plus. After doing this I look at my reservation on united.com and it has under flight: confirmed, upgrade: pending. I know this was not there prior to talking to the agent, is this the new way of doing the upgrades? I searched on the united.com site and it sounds like this is the same status that would be showing for their elites on upgrades, can anybody confirm?