Originally Posted by
RAD_PDX
Perhaps you were the last to actually select a seat? I'd be interested to know what really happened, but all I know to do now is speculate.
Possible, though unlikely as I was up at a very early hour on day of departure, noticed my u/g and selected the seat. And that certainly shouldn't be a criteria for the downgrade. I had always understood it to be "Last In, First Out"