Originally Posted by
Aussienarelle
So I called to be told there were no seats available in my fare class for the earlier flight (UA 2) but said I was being offered the change of flight in the app for zero cost and the CS rep then stated there would be no seat available in Polaris, so thanked her and kept my original flight tonight (UA 28). So just checked the flight status for UA 2 to see there is indeed one seat that went out empty in Polaris for the flight. If it makes any difference I called into the 1K desk at 4am for the 8.45am flight.
If you had gotten the agent to waitlist you -- it's outside of policy, but some will do it anyway -- you presumably would have cleared, but I'd have hated to take that gamble personally.
If you had checked again around 6 or 7, the fare classes might have evened out and you might have gotten a different answer (not necessarily, to be sure).