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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, here is your situation which I don't think you are portraying correctly - no fault of your own because it seems like you do not take many flights.

You paid for a United economy ticket.  You did NOT pay for economy plus (more money at the time of purchase and more legroom).  Posters here think that you've paid for an economy plus ticket, which you did not.

You think because you did not buy a basic economy ticket that you are entitled to pick your seat.  In many cases, that is true.  But, when a flight gets booked to a certain point, they stop letting you pick seats because there may not be enough seats for all the passengers.  It is a common practice to over sell tickets on a plane because not everyone shows up.  That practice can be dissected on a different thread all together.  Just accept it as fact and that it is happening on your flight.

So until the day of travel, sometimes at the gate before you board, you will be assigned a seat.  In some instances, you may be separated from your party.  There is no way of knowing how that will turn out.  There are just too many variables in play.

Long story short, if you want to guarantee that you and your family sit together, opt to pay for the economy plus tickets.  If you want to take your chances, as some other posters have mentioned, you can, and hopefully you will be able to sit all together.  But I can almost guarantee you that your family will NOT get economy plus seating.  This almost never happens on a full flight that is an oversold capacity.  The reason why I don't think *your* family will get upgraded to economy plus is that there are likely to be other people who bought economy tix (not basic economy) that will have some sort of status that will be upgraded before you (I'm assuming you have no status on united).

In the worst case scenario, if you have kids and you all have different seats, you can ask people to switch seats to sit next to your kids.  Most people will accommodate a family.  But since this is a longer trip, I can see some people saying no if all of your family has middle seats and you are asking for a window or aisle seat to trade.

Hope that explanation helps.

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This. We, 2 adults and 2 10 year olds, are flying to the Caribbean in 2 weeks on United and we sucked it up and paid for our seat assignments so that we wouldn’t be that family trying to get people to swap so we could be near each other. It sucks but at this point when you are traveling as a family you have to build these fees into the trip. [/quote]

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