Originally Posted by
MSPeconomist
Has this been updated? In the other thread, the OP had clarified that the UA agent had asked the passengers whether they wanted to sit together. When they said yes, the agent moved one of them from the PP seat (that had cost more) back to a regular middle Y+ seat, without any warning that this was being done. Unless something has changed recently, there's no indication that the passengers requested the change.
There is plenty of opinions on the motivations of the passengers and the agent and there is no reason to start another discussion on this -- except the implication UA arbitrarily "bumped" the passenger is inaccurate.