Originally Posted by
transpac-canuck
Related question: when booking a Main Cabin seat, you can elect to be auto upgraded if there's a Select seat available. I almost always book an aisle MCE seat, and I assume that any MCS seat that's available at the window will be a middle seat. So I always unselect auto upgrade because I'd hate to be in the middle.
Everyone else have this experience? What's been the reality? Middle seats?
This very thing came up for me today, for my flight tomorrow from SFO to Boston. I called my gold VA number and they told me that I could move my seat from 3E (middle) to 10A. All that I needed to do was to let them uncheck me in, and then I would have to check back in myself and choose 10A during that process. I asked the guy to stay on the phone with me while I did this, in fear of completely losing a MCS seat and it worked out fine.