Joshua

It's difficult to hold on to a seat assignment on SkyWest operated EMB-120s.

The flight will, apparently at random, show either an aft lav or a front lav EMB-120. Shortly before departure, if the actual aircraft is different, the seat assignments will change because some seats don't exist (1B/C or 11D) on the specific version. Often the equipment type will change twice, causing everyone to get dumped out of their seats.

But this doesn't resolve why I can never hang on to 11B. 11B exists on both aircraft types, and is an "economy plus" seat on the front lav version. Unfortunately, this means you get reassigned to a seat like 6B or 2A on the aft lav, which is most emphatically NOT an extra legroom seat.

Why can't United align the seat assignments? Or just block off seat assignments that cannot be preserved?

Case in point, yesterday:
- Assigned 11B. Watched seat map judiciously (plane filled up a long time ago).
- Did OLCI, got boarding pass for 11B.
- Observed about 2 hours prior a stand-by had cleared into 11B.
- Checked reservation and have been relocated to 6B.
- SkyWest ground crew seem to be expecting this - they often have everyone's boarding passes printed up at the gate in a nice stack ready to hand out to anyone who's BP makes the scanner beep loudly.