I was checking out seating availability for Monday July 8, flight UA1270. For the SEA-ANC leg, leaving SEA at 12:47 pm, rows 8-15 show for sale as Economy seating! These are normally reserved E+ seating. This is especially troubling since this is a Monday flight on a tourist-heavy route in July, which is high season for visiting Alaska!
Only 2 seats show for E+! Has anyone noticed reduced E+ reserved capacity on other flights?
What is happening here? Where is all the E+ seating? How will Premier Silvers get E+ seating at checkin time?
Is this the beginning of another way UA is possibly continuing to reduce benefits for Premier members?
Take a deep breath. That flight will be operated on a/c #3451, a 737-900 with no E+ seating.
Happily, though, the seats toward the front of the plane are reserved for premiers, including Silvers. But they're not E+.