Originally Posted by
dirkman
Fair is fair, afterall. It's not like United gives preferred seating to *Gold members from other airlines either. If you're a US Silver, you should still be able to get preferred seating on US.
Eh, UA will allow you to pre-reserve any standard Y seat on the plane. Sure, you can't reserve a E+ seat, but given that US doesn't have E+ there's no reciprocal benefit that it can offer to UA's elites.
When both airlines offer the same configurations, then you'd be more likely to see crossover. But when airline A offers a feature airline B does not, why should airline A give that feature away to airline B's customers when airline B has nothing to offer airline A's customers?