About SeatRecon

Our mission

Airlines fly the same aircraft in wildly different cabins, and the difference between a good flight and a bad one often comes down to a single seat. Most seat-map sites either copy each other or guess. SeatRecon exists to do the opposite: to build a seat map you can actually trust, where the claim “this seat has no window” is backed by a source you can click through to. The database covers 1,100 cabin configurations across 220 airlines, with more than 235,000 individually rated seats and over 4,400 archived source citations.

How we build each seat map

Every configuration starts from airline-published materials — official aircraft pages, seat-selection tools, cabin diagrams, safety cards — and, where relevant, engineering data such as fuselage window-grid geometry. We cross-check three ways: the published layout, the airline’s stated cabin counts, and the underlying aircraft structure have to agree before a seat map goes live. When a layout is drawn from a published diagram we badge it as such; when it is reconstructed from cabin counts we say so plainly. Nothing is presented as more certain than the evidence allows.

Each seat map carries provenance badges, a list of the exact sources behind it with the date each was retrieved, and a last-verified date. When a source is only an archived snapshot, we keep the snapshot so the claim survives even if the airline’s page changes. Our full method — how layouts are sourced, how seats are rated, and how we detect windowless window seats — is documented on the methodology page.

Corrections policy

We publish a lot of data, and some of it will be wrong. When you tell us — or when we catch it ourselves — we fix the error and record what changed in that page’s changelog, with the date. Cabins get retrofitted, airlines swap aircraft, and sources go stale; the changelog is how we stay honest about it rather than quietly editing history. If a claim can no longer be sourced, we remove it rather than leave it standing. To report a correction, use the contact page.

Who runs it

Airline names and logos are trademarks of their respective owners, used here for identification only. SeatRecon is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any airline. Logos are sourced from freely licensed artwork (public domain or Creative Commons); each is credited in our published logo manifest.