Originally Posted by
nwflyboy
[MENTION=477365]abaheti[/MENTION] - Interesting. So what magic does Air Canada have that United doesn't? No apparent seat has been assigned for me, at least none that United dot com can see/display (it offers me a link to choose a seat, but of course the link is a dead end saying, "ask the other guys.").
So, your Air Canada reservation shows assigned seats? What did it assign? How many in your traveling party, and were the seat assignments at all rational - ie a couple seated next to each other in the two center seats, or front/back window seats, near each other or scattered to the wind, etc?
Yes, 4D/4E, which seem like pretty reasonable business class options (center, side by side). Of course, I can't verify that the seats assignments are real because I can't get the website to work. I don't know why UA and AC would have a difference. If forced to speculate, my AC booking seems that AC and AV use the same locator whereas UA and AV are different. Maybe that helps AV's system process seats? I really have no clue. It is just odd to have two contrasting examples, both booked same day within hours.
On a separate note, it looks like the service was updated in June: https://aviationsourcenews.com/airline/avianca-business-class-from-los-angeles/
and this which reads like a paid review but seems to match the info: https://www.theblondeabroad.com/avianca-787-business-class-flight-from-la-to-bogota/