Difficulty of Star Alliance Gold in booking close-in aisle/window 772 Bus. seats.
Mar 22, 2019, 10:10 am
#16
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And be more explicit, if not UA GS ( the very, very top UA elites), other *G level UA elites (IKs, Plats, Gold, million milers not GS)) do not have advance access to Row 1 or 2 seats.
If going to GRU, only ORD-GRU use these aircraft, Other GRU routes use other aircraft types.
This aircraft is being phased out, more than half have been converted to the new Polaris seat.
Mar 22, 2019, 11:44 am
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My wife, a 1K,, was unable to choose any seat on a nearly empty flight from EWR-LHR last night. The GA couldn't understand why not, said that she had never seen that issue before, and took a good five minutes trying to sort out the problem. FWIW, she'd SDC'd onto the flight and the SDC process was broken on her ticket as well (it was not BE). So glitches do happen.
Mar 22, 2019, 12:17 pm
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I tend to book my long haul international trips 4 to 9 months in advance and then I always manage to get my preferred seats in the 2-4-2 772. Today, I had to book a long haul international trip only two months away and the choices were more limited. So, I'm not surprised that the OP could not get any windows or aisle seats on a short notice. It's not like United is going to remove a passenger from their seat to accommodate a passenger who booked late.
If it happens that you have to book late, then you have to frequently check the seat map as in the last 2 or 3 days it changes a lot with some passengers cancelling their trips or switching to other flights.
If it happens that you have to book late, then you have to frequently check the seat map as in the last 2 or 3 days it changes a lot with some passengers cancelling their trips or switching to other flights.
Mar 22, 2019, 7:07 pm
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I tend to book my long haul international trips 4 to 9 months in advance and then I always manage to get my preferred seats in the 2-4-2 772. Today, I had to book a long haul international trip only two months away and the choices were more limited. So, I'm not surprised that the OP could not get any windows or aisle seats on a short notice. It's not like United is going to remove a passenger from their seat to accommodate a passenger who booked late.
If it happens that you have to book late, then you have to frequently check the seat map as in the last 2 or 3 days it changes a lot with some passengers cancelling their trips or switching to other flights.
If it happens that you have to book late, then you have to frequently check the seat map as in the last 2 or 3 days it changes a lot with some passengers cancelling their trips or switching to other flights.
Mar 22, 2019, 8:31 pm
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Mar 23, 2019, 4:22 am
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Of course that's a possibility, but still I struggle to understand why the UA agent at YYZ wasn't supposed to do what she did. A window seat was available but I didn't have access to it until she broke the rules on my behalf, and I concluded that it may be because I'm a one-million-miler on the wrong FF program. I would hope that, as a *A Gold customer paying top dollar, I would receive the same benefits as an equivalent MileagePlus traveler.