Originally Posted by BearX220

My wife is going SEA-IAH-DCA tomorrow, I just checked her in, and E+ is WIDE open for both legs. As in, maybe six or eight seats taken. I flew BOS-SFO-SEA earlier this month and it was the same story -- in fact, I got comped into 8D on the second leg by a GA who didn't want to bother collecting the E+ upcharge. I had all of row 8 to myself. Are these isolated data points or do they illustrate the "donut hole" theory that UA is doing well with a small cohort of GS types, a bunch of penny-pinching Kayakers, and few in between?