Originally Posted by dtremit

Aha -- thank you. Yes -- we do indeed have assigned seats in the 2x2 cabin that's used for transcon J bookings. That's actually what had me most confused, as those seats were shown as "Business" when reserving the flight and selecting seats.

So that makes more sense now (and also explains why we were in the 1x1 cabin on the same flight on our last J award through JFK).

I suppose in theory I could set up an alert for U class on that flight and move up to the next cabin? Although I can't imagine it's worth the bother...