Originally Posted by
KLouis
And if the plane's full, you're stuck with a seat in the back...

You're already in the back to begin with this though, as you don't have access to e+. To me, wether you're in seat 20A, 23A, 27A, etc, is all the same. But if yiu choose a farther seat in the back, it looks slightly more possible as someone with some status (although not uniteds) that they may comp you.