Originally Posted by mgcsinc (Post 20607144)

Check your email preferences.

Originally Posted by star_world (Post 20606603)

You are wrong on the last part - they absolutely do clear standbys into E- now by default as part of the automated process. See for yourself next time you're standing at a gate with some time to spare. This might have been true at some time in the past but it's not true now. You can either look at the cleared standbys screen, or the seatmap itself.

Originally Posted by channa (Post 20606866)

That doesn't jive with my recent experience (< 30 days ago) when a non-Elite standby cleared into E+ right next to me, and there were tons of open seats in the back.

Originally Posted by mgcsinc (Post 20607144)

Check your email preferences.

Originally Posted by boat9781 (Post 20607954)

I've never cleared CPU without an email.

Originally Posted by GroundStop (Post 20606486)

Not been my experience - when I use my corporate TA they assign based on my stated preference (but admittedly that's from their systems, not UA), whilst when booking on the phone with UA, I have typically found they either ask me what seat I want or just completely fail to assign a seat at all (eg. applying an RPU over the phone yesterday, seat selection was just ignored and left blank until I assigned myself a seat).