You bring up a good point--I am not sure what United's policy is, so I will ask next Monday when I'm at the airport. However, I find it interesting that the few times I traveled on another Star Alliiance carrier during the past year or so, I DID get priority seating. I thought you must be a flight attendant when I read your post, until I got to the part that said "I don't get why people complain about seating." I am a business traveler who has been a 100,000 mile flyer on United for 9 years. Currently, I fly over halfway across the country and back every other week. Why do I want to be in the front of the plane? Because that is where other "business travelers" generally sit, meaning it is less likely that I will be seated next to a screaming infant or in front of a toddler who kicks the seat for the entire 4 hours while I am trying to work. And when I get to my destination, yes, I want to be able to grab my bag and get OFF of the plane as soon as possible in order to get to the rental car or get to my car to go home. Waiting an extra 15-20 minutes for rows 1-25 to get off the plane is more time out of my day that is wasted. If I flew a couple times a year, then it wouldn't matter--but when you fly as much as I do, yes, it does matter.
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