Originally Posted by
Kacee
... The point is that if you have a bunch of empty E+ seats, fill the ones next to the GS and 1K last. ...
Empty economy seats -- very rare sighting IME . My last 6 flights in June, mostly departed with unfillied standbys. The lightest was a 777HD DEN-SFO in the middle of the day -- a handful of empty seats.
Originally Posted by
Kacee
... For many years, UA proactively blocked those seats so they were the last ones assigned, and it was something many of us took into account in directing most or all of our air travel spend to UA. ....
Those were in the days of 70-80% bookings, those days are presently gone.