Seating
 

I am puzzled as to how United does its seating reservations. If you go on the website and make a reservation and then try to reserve seats, you will notice that the last five or six rows are completely filled which is odd since I would think most people would want to be seated more in the front.

Does the airline just block off seats in the back?

Aloha honmani2,

Those seats in the back that aren't available are blocked off to be assigned on date of departure by UA airport agents.

These choice last row seats, most especially the centre ones on widebodies, and most especially the ones near the 4 screaming infants, are kept back and blocked especially for folks who turn up at airports and try and BS the check-in agents. Saying you are using a SWU to upgrade and then forgetting it etc, and hoping 500 milers might do instead. etc.

And they say "sorry no NC seats on hand right now, but I doooooooooooooo have a nice seat for you down at 61E. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif

Man this is soooo accurate. I nearly fell off the chair reading this.