Airplane Seat Guides

A bulkhead seat is a seat in the first row behind a fixed cabin partition, a wall, curtain or divider, with no passenger row … Read more

To find a seat with a window, pick the outermost letter in the row: A on the left side of the aircraft, and the … Read more

Bulkhead vs exit row, which is better? Short answer: pick the exit row if your priority is raw legroom and you meet the airline’s … Read more

Some rows have misaligned windows because the aircraft manufacturer cuts the fuselage windows at a fixed structural pitch, while the airline mounts seat rows … Read more

How to use a seat map to find extra legroom: find the rows with no seat in front of them. A seat map is … Read more

A blocked seat is a seat your airline will not let you book, even though the seat map shows a physical seat in that … Read more

An airplane seat is a certified piece of aircraft furniture, not a padded chair. A tubular aluminium or composite frame carries the load, cushion … Read more

When you open the seat map and a few seats are greyed out, marked with an X, or simply refuse to click, it usually … Read more

A pre-reclined seat is an airplane seat whose back is fixed at a gentle backward angle instead of fully upright, with no working recline … Read more

An airline seat chart is a top-down diagram of one aircraft cabin, where every seat appears as a labeled block arranged by row number … Read more