Originally Posted by RobOnLI

I've decided I'm going to give this a try (again). Remember last time I booked BE I wound up chickening out and rebooked regular Y for $150 more. This time regular Y is over $300 more so I'm pretty sure I'll stick with BE unless I decide not to take the trip entirely.

Interestingly, the outbound is 99% full in the back. After booking I plugged my flights into EF so I can track them and realized the EWR-Europe flight is Y1...H1. I'm booked in "T" as a basic economy fare. Plenty of seats open on the seat map so I imagine plenty of BE fares. No clue if they treat 1K passengers on BE "better" (meaning they auto assign us better seats). Does anyone know how the auto assignment of seats works? Anyone figure out if it's back to front? Based on status? Time of ticketing? Just wondering. It's a 7 hour flight eastbound but it is a red eye. I prefer a window but it's not the end of the world as I won't sleep on the flight anyway.

Flight departs in 3 calendar days. Will update if I wind up taking it and how the seating situation is handled for all four flights.

-RM