Originally Posted by
bocastephen
Finally a group pee break and on the way back I was able to see not just those two seats but three seats in total were vacant. So not shenanigans but definitely a failure to process the upgrade list properly and IIRC there is a thread to report that.
I've noticed a change recently with UA and pilot crew rest seats.... It used to be that a particular seat (typically 1A on my EWR-NRT-EWR) flights would be held -- now it seems to be "any" seat to be held open... When I was on EWR-NRT a few weeks ago the crew occupied seat 1D (and removed soneome who was upgraded by mistake from it) -- but they were only there for about 30 minutes after take-off to have a meal.... Same thing happened on the return -- except then I was in 1D -- and 1A was designated open -- they were there twice -- to eat only -- on a 13 hour flight.....
Not saying that is what you saw -- probably just a lazy agent at ORD - -but things aren't working like they used to....