Originally Posted by
PhillyPhlyer40
CO (really the new UA) mngt has never given a RATS REAR-END about seat assignments.
I feel your pain. 3-4 times I had seats booked for vacations...and due to a simple a/c change...IE 738 -> 738 different tail #, seats would be jostled! It is
[email protected] the old CO was H

RRIBLE about getting seats back.
Good luck...and I truly feel for you. The "you paid for transporation, not a seat" is BS in my book.
I have had the same thing happen to me (seats getting changed due to A/C swap) on PMUA as well. On one itinerary the PMUA seat system pulled me out of my E+ bulkhead aisle seat in put me in an E- middle seat. It did it three times in about a week.
This was on a 8 hour TATL flight.