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Old 02-27-2007, 11:50 PM   #46
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Thanks for this info! I just used it to change the seat selections for our upcoming trip!!
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Old 05-02-2007, 12:12 PM   #47
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Old 05-06-2007, 12:28 AM   #48
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Totally cool site, Thanks!

This is my first time flying in like 15 years, and my 8-year-old daughter's first time ever! This will come in handy when selecting our flights. I didn't even know until I looked at the site that Southwest doesn't assign seats! What a bummer, I may choose a different airline just so that my daughter can have a good experience her first time flying.
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Fabulous link! I have already been able to book my seats, but the agent wasn't able to tell me if I was upstairs or downstairs on the virgin 747 - I've just checked and both our journeys are upstairs - Hurray!!

Thanks so much for this link!
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That is great! I'm almost six foot tall and I was super cramped for our two hour flight. I felt like I was unfolding after that trip and hated the flight back because someone actually tried to take my seat and we had to make her pull her ticket out. It was a mess.
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I used SeatGuru.com to pick my seats when I booked our recent flight to Orlando for our WDW vacation earlier this month. It was my daughter's first flight and my husband was a bit nervous to fly. I picked seats just a couple of isles in front of the wings so that my daughter could see out the window. She was so thrilled to watch out the window as we went up in the air and exclaimed "Awsome!!" at the view when we got up. It was also a little less bumpy where we sat, SeatGuru said that the back of the plane was where you felt a little more turbulance. All in all we had great flights and like our seat choices.
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Awesome site!
I will have to remember to use them before I book our flight for WDW for seat selection. Thanks for the heads up.
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Thanks, I never heard of this site!! I'll be bookmarking it now to use on future flights!
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I use seat guru for all my international/ domestic flights..I choose my international carrier purely on seat config and pitch. Thats why i flew air tahiti last year, took me 6 hrs longer to get to wdw from australia,via tahiti, but the aircraft was newer, had a few more inches { great on long haul flights} and the config was awesome. All info found on seat guru.

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I need that.....because I'm tall and Pooh sized. When we took our last flight I spent most of my time with my knees hitting the seat. I was happy to get off the plane. Since we live in the Cincy market that is dominated by Delta. Never trust them when they say book two seats and leave the middle open for your toddler. We had out seat given to a smaller person who tried at first to take my seat then took up more room than me.
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Thanks for the information! On my flight from San Francisco to Orlando I set by the window. Oh the pain!!! I have learned my lesson. Next time my wife and I sit on the aisle and middle seats!!! I will check out Seatguru too. Thanks. scott

PS: I don't fly SouthWest because of their lack of assigned seating.
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Fabulous!!! Thanks so much!! I am possibly booking flights tomorrow and this is so helpful in seat selection!!
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Isn't that Site Great!

I came across it a few years ago when I became curious about our Seats and if they were really "good" seats on the plane.

Very helpful when we got some seats assigned by the Travel Agent that weren't excatly the best seats on the plane.
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