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The folks at SeatGURU.com<\/a> track individual seats and rows on all the major planes flown by the top US airlines, noting which ones are particularly attractive (reclining, foot space, pitch space to the next seatback, overhead bin space) and which should be avoided.<\/p>\n

The biggest problem I see here is actually getting the seat you want. Seats seem to be regularly reassigned at check-in, for example, and sometimes after that (during the increasingly frequent plane reassignments). Still, if you can work it out, there’s some useful info here.<\/p>\n

(via BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The folks at SeatGURU.com track individual seats and rows on all the major planes flown by the top US airlines, noting which ones are particularly attractive (reclining, foot space, pitch…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":39211,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/15\/something-squeezed-tight-in-the-air.html","url_meta":{"origin":3690,"position":0},"title":"Something Squeezed-Tight in the Air","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 15-Oct-13 10:17pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm quite pleased to hear that new airline seat technology is saving money in terms of lower weight and thus lower fuel expenditures. \u00a0I'm also pleased that airlines are figuring out ways of reconfiguring seat space to provide the feeling of more personal space for passengers.Reducing space between seats (even\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":45458,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/23\/the-horror-of-solving-the-reclining-seat-problem.html","url_meta":{"origin":3690,"position":1},"title":"The Horror of Solving the Reclining Seat Problem","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 23-Sep-14 3:35pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Two thoughts on the article. 1. 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