Originally Posted by
JYBritt
If I'm going to a professional sports game or a concert, and I wish to buy more than one ticket, it's ASSUMED by the venue and/or the vendor that those in my party would wish to sit together--and we're not charged a premium for doing so. Doesn't take too much of an imagination for the reader to figure out how the UA President got to be the UA President, and it makes one feel sorry for all those in the organization beneath him.
That's a particularly poor example. Basic Economy is, in effect, open seating among what's left over a couple of hours before flight.
United sells a product the OP wants - seats together. He didn't want to pay for it.