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Updated SeatGuru Brings New Features, Recommendations

by Chris Owen (RSS feed) on Jan 25th 2013 at 2:00PM

SeatGuru has been providing unbiased seat information to air travelers, removing some of the mystery when selecting an airline seat, for over ten years. Tapping a rich library of flier reviews and tips, SeatGuru has hundreds of airline seat maps covering nearly 100 airlines, enabling travelers to find the best seats before they fly. Now, SeatGuru has a new look, better layout and more content in addition to a new Guru Factor rating system.

The new easier-to-use site builds on that content and was designed with features to elevate the user experience including live flight shopping via TripAdvisor's flight comparison engine, user provided photos.

Unique to SeatGuru, the new "Guru Factor" promises detailed seat comfort and onboard amenity information along with an overall recommendation of either "Love it," "Like it," or "Live with it" for your selected flight itinerary.

The Guru Factor considers the type of seat, seat pitch, width and recline, in-flight entertainment options, onboard amenities and TripAdvisor customer satisfaction ratings for airlines.

"The new SeatGuru will give millions of flyers even more useful insight to help them plan and have the best flight experience possible," said Bryan Saltzburg, general manager of TripAdvisor Flights and SeatGuru. "Access to our comprehensive seat and airline amenity information, new flight shopping functionality, purchase options, and trustworthy advice from fellow travelers will be infinitely valuable for those planning their next flight."

SeatGuru's re-launched site is up right now. Coming up, SeatGuru's iPhone app will have the new seat map design, improved navigation and travelers can create a profile then submit comments and photos of their seat in real time.

[Photo credit- Flickr user ATIS547]

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