E+ seats?
 

I need to make reservations to Florida during Spring Break for my wife and I and when I looked at flights, the fares (on TED) were very high-$650 to $1250/person. I thought I would check loads since I need to book anyway and noticed that while E- was very full on flights into RSW, FLL and TPA, E+ was very empty. My question is: what does UAL do when E- becomes full and no more room, just start giving away E+ seats?

UA offers E+ buy-up at checkin in cases like this. If that does not get enough people out of E-, they will have to upgrade for free.

In addition to what lucky said, if you're talking about before the day of the flight E- becomes full, UA won't assign them seats and will most likely give them a "Seats will be assigned at checkin" kind of message. They usually won't upgrade to E+ in advance.

Thanks for the replies. I am sure that UAL will sell the seats to anyone and if they are non-status will know that they will have to give these seats in E+ away for free, w/o paying the $25. Essentially, the statement that these seats are reserved for 1P,1K, UGS unless paid for is not true and they know it. Anyone with reservations knowledge care to comment?

Well, let's think about this for a second. A Ted 320 has 156 seats, 66 of which are E+. If only one person books E+ and all 90 seats are sold out in Y, do you expect UA to stop selling seats? Obviously, they will continue to sell seats until there are at least 156 sold.

For my holiday travel: SYR to ORD - in e+, e+ full. ORD to SEA - in E+ in a window, middle empty, aisle another elite.

on the way home was a segment run. booked e+ from SEA to ORD, but opuped to C. ORD - PIT in e+ and it was full. PIT - IAD - no e+ (CRJ 700 config w/ f and e-). IAD - SYR in e+ and it was full.

On 2 of my segments it seemed like being a lowly 2P mattered, the rest it was all the same. Kids behind me were talking about the roomyness...I felt like turning around and saying "these seats are supposed to mean something."

The rest of the year they've been pretty good though. It seemed like the people around me in e+ weren't even MP members!