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By Kathleen Crislip, About.com

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Seat Guru Supplies Individual Airplane Seat Info

Mouseover Individual Seats for Details

Mouseover Individual Seats for Details

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Seat Guru supplies individual airplane seat info: seat 39K is yellow and looks like a window seat, but mousing over it shows me that there is no window and SeatGuru informs me that, though it has extra legroom because it is on a bulkhead, it may be noisy because it's near a lavatory. Seat 38k sounds like it is nearby, but the map shows me that it is separated from 39K by a lavatory and an exit. Evidently, it has a window, but a mouseover pops up this info: "Seats 38 H, J, K are located in the last row of this World Traveler cabin and may not recline. Some complain that because these seats are directly in front of the lavatories, people tend to congregate in the area, making it slightly more noisy."

I don't want that; I'll look at seat 29K - it's colored green and has no seat in front of it. A mouseover shows me this: "Seat 29K has extra legroom as there is no seat in front of you. The tray table is in the armrest, slightly reducing seat width and making the armrest immoveable. There is no floor storage."

Ah hah. These are precisely the sort of limitations I don't want. Mousing over seat 40A shows me that it has a window and extra legroom because it is on a bulkhead. No detriments. No laptop plug, either; maybe I'll watch the in-flight movie. Mousing over "Video" and clicking for more information shows me that the inflight movie is a new release I haven't seen. Great!

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