HadesNL

Some of the comments though are cringeworthy:

The one feature that SeatGuru has had, yet to appear on AeroLOPA
, is which version of a particular aircraft is being used for a specific route on a specific day -
- a key piece of information in making an informed advance seat selection.

Ahum......
Performing one's own piece of investigating journalisim about a potential flight
+ looking up aircraft deployment in the timetable,
seems to be quite an effort for some ......

Nobody seems to take in consideration that it is all a volunteer group effort with appreciated community input .....

So again: i am thank you and everyone else for this amazing free resource...
And to add: i too am clinging to an old Singapore Airlines & KLM timetable book because of the pretty amazing detailed seatmaps as a relic of a bygone age that still holds fascination

Prospero

It's a fair comment and I have received many requests for this very thing and have been collaborating closely with copilottravel.com with a view of implementing this feature. Having invested quite a bit of time to this, the conclusion is we are not sure if it is possible to retrieve the true seat map from Amadeus, since the data the GDS provides is limited to the aircraft IATA code. If airlines could get into the discipline of developing a single LOPA for each aircraft type, by following KLM's example, then everything in my world would run tickety-boo. But the reality is, most airlines operate on the basis of having multiple LOPAs for a multitude of aircraft types.

So in reality what seatguru.com and seatmaps.com appear to be doing is fetching the aircraft code from the GDS, then applying a best guess to match the LOPA with the flight no and date request. The results are far from perfect, as these sites frequently get it wrong.

ExpertFlyer does have a much higher success rate, which leads me to think they developed a clever robotic script which mines the GDS and also scrapes the more granular aircraft cabin data directly from airline websites. I could be wrong though but in any event, this is something EF does do tremendously well. I just don't think AeroLOPA can possibly match it

hurnik

Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but when I try to find the AA (American Eagle) E145, and click on it, I get an error that the page cannot be found:
https://www.aerolopa.com/aa-e45

If it's not actually there (like no data yet) perhaps change the icon to say (coming soon) or something?

Prospero

My apologies, the link wasn't working properly but it has now been fixed.

hurnik

Thank you very much!!!

csycsycsy

Hi Prospero,

https://www.aerolopa.com/jl
The 737-800 International ver. links to the domestic/V32 page instead of the v40 page.

Thank you!

Prospero

My apologies, I have now corrected the link

Thanks