New Seatmap on United.com
#1
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Join Date: Nov 2009
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New Seatmap on United.com
Hi there,
Didn't see this posted elsewhere, but I was booking a flight today and saw the seatmap link didn't expand down. Clicking it now loads a new fancy seatmap. Going to take some getting used to, as it's a new window, which makes looking at seats quickly harder. But I'll give it a chance.
https://imgur.com/a/ZyPzcBV
Didn't see this posted elsewhere, but I was booking a flight today and saw the seatmap link didn't expand down. Clicking it now loads a new fancy seatmap. Going to take some getting used to, as it's a new window, which makes looking at seats quickly harder. But I'll give it a chance.
https://imgur.com/a/ZyPzcBV
#2
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Hi there,
Didn't see this posted elsewhere, but I was booking a flight today and saw the seatmap link didn't expand down. Clicking it now loads a new fancy seatmap. Going to take some getting used to, as it's a new window, which makes looking at seats quickly harder. But I'll give it a chance.
https://imgur.com/a/ZyPzcBV
Didn't see this posted elsewhere, but I was booking a flight today and saw the seatmap link didn't expand down. Clicking it now loads a new fancy seatmap. Going to take some getting used to, as it's a new window, which makes looking at seats quickly harder. But I'll give it a chance.
https://imgur.com/a/ZyPzcBV
I've had to re-start my flight searches all over again because it gets confused.
David
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This started yesterday as far as I can tell. I looked for the united.com thread to post about it but couldn't find it.
This is back to copying Delta. Delta has been doing this for a while and I hate it.
Bring back the old way of doing seat maps. It's more efficient!!!
-RM
This is back to copying Delta. Delta has been doing this for a while and I hate it.
Bring back the old way of doing seat maps. It's more efficient!!!
-RM
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Ugh. Inevitable, but echoing everyone else here, why is less information on a screen considered preferable these days??
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1. Evolving Internet graphic norms - more whitespace is more
2. Stupidphones - scrolling is preferred to compact individual pages
3. Programmer laziness/stupidphone dominance - got it to work with stupidphones, that's now what everyone else gets
Any others I missed?
David "Gimme a good browser and get outta my way" Lee
#7
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I don't like this at all. When looking at flights between, say EWR-SFO, I want to be able to compare seat maps of all the flights in my time frame to pick the best one for me, and before I could open then and then just scan up and down the page. What's the advantage here?
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New vertically oriented seat maps on booking page look nice and very Delta-esque, yet when you go to select a seat on a reservation it takes you back to the old Continental.com-looking page.
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There's definitely some bugs. Yesterday the 739 I was on SFO-LAS had three rows. I was in row 5 at the time.
Edit - clarification: 3 rows of F showed out of the 5 on the plane.
Edit - clarification: 3 rows of F showed out of the 5 on the plane.
Last edited by IAH-OIL-TRASH; Nov 5, 2019 at 1:01 pm
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This started yesterday as far as I can tell. I looked for the united.com thread to post about it but couldn't find it.
This is back to copying Delta. Delta has been doing this for a while and I hate it.
Bring back the old way of doing seat maps. It's more efficient!!!
-RM
This is back to copying Delta. Delta has been doing this for a while and I hate it.
Bring back the old way of doing seat maps. It's more efficient!!!
-RM