One of the oldest online tools that frequent flyers relied on has finally shut down. I guess this shouldn’t be surprising, but I also can’t make sense of why it had to be this way…
You’d think that having the most widely used airplane seat map resource would be a useful tie-in for any online travel agency. Admittedly direct revenue opportunities are otherwise pretty limited, aside from impression based ads, and some referrals to other businesses in parallel spaces.
aeroLOPA is the best airplane seat map tool nowadays
While I’m symbolically sad to see SeatGuru discontinued, I can’t say that I’ve used the site in the past several years. As I’ve covered in the past, nowadays aeroLOPA is the best website for airplane seat maps.
No, aeroLOPA doesn’t color code seats as “good” or “bad,” but I consider it to be much more useful than that, since you can actually draw your own conclusions based on the seat maps. aeroLOPA shows the exact locations of windows, and publishes seat information and details to a much higher level of specificity than SeatGuru ever did.
Bottom line
SeatGuru has finally shut down, after not seeing any changes for over five years. It’s the end of an era, but I guess it got to the point where the information was so outdated that it wasn’t even worth keeping up anymore.
A great solo travel tip spotted this week on One Mile at a Time.
