Originally Posted by
southtahoe
Greetings,
I don't travel overseas much, but I am travelling on UAL 869 SFO_HKG on 1/4, and have been monitoring seating pretty regularly. (ok daily

). Anyway, Y has been sold out for at least two weeks.
Today, however, 4 full rows opened up in Y. ?!?!?
How in the world did that happen?
The seats were probably open but blocked from reserving all this time. Now that the flight is less than 2 days away they opened them for everyone.