Originally Posted by
canadiancow
Once again making things worse for SEs who buy high fares at the last minute.
Nah. It's unreasonable to expect that prime seats be left available just in case someone wants to book Y at the last minute.
Originally Posted by
canadiancow
AC doesn't have the preferred seat sections that can accommodate this the way UA does. There's what... a dozen preferred seats on most widebodies? The widebodies that operate numerous flights within North America...
Completely agree, a policy like UA's allowing bottom-tier elites free access to Preferred seats at check-in is fine when the aircraft is equipped with enough of those seats to accommodate it.
...then again, as a person who exceeds both 6 feet and 200 pounds, I've got more than that reason to wish AC would come to its senses and add rows of non-bulkhead Preferred seats to widebodies to match its competitors.