Originally Posted by
mahasamatman
I wrote what I meant, and meant what I wrote. I believe that booking an extra seat just for the purpose of extra elbow room is an abuse of the system.
That's where we disagree. And since seat assignments are never guaranteed, there's no assurance that extra seat will be next to you if you do it.
But UA will explicitly
sell an extra seat for this purpose.
So this argument makes no sense at all.