Originally Posted by
payam81
... Maybe I'm just a simpleton, but I like EFs new, allegedly, non-professional, 10 minutes put together seat map better which is BTW, incidentally the same seat map system used by TG, SQ and a bunch of other *A airlines (and possibly more that I don't know of).
That is not true.
Those airline seat maps basically use the one icon to indicate availability.
E/F now has at least 6 all indicating the same = free.
It needs extra effort when

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It seems simple there, but imagine a web page with 200 or more of these icons ...
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