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TripIt reveals preferred seat tracker details for TripIt Pro subscribers
TransportTripIt made good on its pledge and released a Seat Tracker feature in its premium TripIt Pro product. Subscribers to the $49 per year TripIt Pro service can share their itineraries, identify their seat preferences (window or aisle, front or back of cabin, exit row or bulkhead), and then Seat Tracker alerts travelers when a [...]
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Airline capacity reductions felt across U.S. cities
TransportAirlines survived $147-a-barrel oil, a financial collapse on Wall Street, and a recession in 2008 by doing two things: slashing capacity — fewer flights, different-size aircrafts, recalibrated routes — and charging annoying fees for everything from baggage to “choice” seats. Nationwide, there are 8 percent fewer airplane seats with passengers in them than five years [...]
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Southwest apologizes to passenger hassled for being overweight
TransportA man claims he was asked to disembark a Southwest Airlines aircraft for being overweight. Matthew Harper, who weighs about 24 stone (154 kg), was reportedly asked to step off the flight from Chicago to Denver after being told it was overbooked. He alleged a cabin crew member asked whether the 34-year-old was aware of [...]
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Video: Airline seats that slide to make space during boarding
TransportAn airline seat that shifts to make boarding easier sounds like a crazy idea, but don’t be surprised to find it on your next flight. The “side-slip seat” is a concept by Molon Labe Designs, a Denver airline interior company that introduced the idea for the first time to airlines and manufacturers last week at [...]
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British Airways reveals its flyers favorite airline seat types
TransportResearch by British Airways has revealed the most popular seats on a standard Boeing 747 aircraft. The four pairs of seats: 51B/51C, 52B/52C, 51H/51J and 52 H/52J, are the most commonly chosen in economy class, the airline said. The seats, located at the very back of the aircraft, are the only ones on board that [...]
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Airbus offers extra-wide seats for extra-wide passengers
TransportThe lack of space on flights has long been a bugbear of British holidaymakers. But now the majority of passengers face aeroplanes with even less wiggle room after manufacturers announced plans to shrink two thirds of seats to make space for overweight travellers. Window and centre seats on Airbus planes could lose an inch of [...]
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Lufthansa to sell cheaper first-class seats with restrictions
TransportDeutsche Lufthansa AG will sell first-class seats at a discount to people willing to give up booking flexibility as the German carrier seeks to squeeze more revenue from its most exclusive product. The so-called tourism first-class will have a minimum lead time for bookings and carry restrictions on cancellations and changes, Lufthansa board member Jens [...]
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SeatGuru iOS app update introduces photos of individual seats
TransportTripAdvisor has recently released version 2.0 of its SeatGuru app for iOS. SeatGuru 2.0 boasts a new interface that does away with the app’s outdated look and feel. The update brings hundreds of new high-resolution seat maps for popular airlines. SeatGuru 2.0 also lets you view photos of individual seats and aircraft cabins to better help [...]
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An argument for why airlines should ban passengers from reclining their seats
TransportSome European airlines have begun installing seats that are slightly tilted in their natural resting state, which, anecdotally at least, helps convince passengers they don’t need to tilt further. But that doesn’t go far enough. It’s time for an outright ban on reclining seats on airplanes. I’m not demanding that airlines rip out the old [...]
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The airline seats of the future: Mesh lounge chairs, personal overhead bins
TransportWhat if your economy-class airline seat could feel nearly as luxurious as first class? AirGo (so named because of the similarity to the word ergo, as in ergonomic airline seating) is the brainchild of Alireza Yaghoubi, a Malaysia-based engineer who entered the design to the James Dyson Award, an international student design award running in [...]
