Originally Posted by
TekTrek
So my best bet is going to be buy up to E+ to confirm a seat and not paint a target on myself for IDB... a bit shady if you ask me.

If there is a E seat left on the plane.. you will be sitting in it..
Sometimes we don't have seat assignements because I plain forgot.. but we were able to get seats checking into each UA flight segment we booked..
We travel as a family.. if you travel alone, you have less to worry about..