Originally Posted by
Boraxo
Of course you can wait until T-24 for your free seats to be assigned. But if the flight is oversold you may not be happy if part of the group is bumped. So best to call the group desk asap to see if they can sort it
Hard for me to imagine that UA’s IDB priority would split apart a group of 10.
The “people without a seat assignment are denied boarding first” thing might be what they published, but I don’t think it has much resemblance to reality. In many cases, people without seat assignments paid the most.