https://www.seatguru.com/

I just used their contact page to send them an article from The Points Guy about new seating on the 767-400. Here's the reply from Trip Advisor support:

Thank you for your interest in SeatGuru. Currently we are not making additional updates to our content on the site and are unable to provide other support. -SeatGuru

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeatGuru says

As of September 2021 attempting to contact the site via "Contact Me" to update seat maps results in the reply "Thank you for your interest in SeatGuru. Currently we are not making additional updates to our content on the site and are unable to provide other support. -SeatGuru"

I'm not sure what's going on, maybe it's only their contact page.

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Interesting. I've used them a number of times and found their info to be up to date and accurate but perhaps they're going away. Hope not as they don't seem to have any competition whatsoever.

There was an app called GateGuru that was absolutely the best airline traveler itinerary app I'd ever used and it went away around 4 years ago. Don't know if the two were connected or not.

Aww man. I hope seatguru is still around. It was valuable in picking flights and seats.

Back in 2007 SeatGuru was aquired by Trip Advisor, which is owned by Expedia. I know back then, there was some grumbling that things would change They survived the economic downturn in 2008-9, yet, in 2011 they were spinoff with Trip Advisor and it seems they've not applied many resources to the site.

I read up on aeroLOPA and they seem to have picked-up where SeatGuru left-off. Both sites I wished had listing of which seat had the modem for each row restricting their under-seat area.

I flew around Thanksgiving and found there their seating maps were not correct. Can not remember what plane it was but one way was a very new version and flight back was an older version both were incorrect.

First time I've had that problem and I use SeatGuru several times a year. It will suck if they are not updating it anymore.

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Originally posted by corsair:

..I read up on aeroLOPA and they seem to have picked-up where SeatGuru left-off...

That link has good diagrams, but I wish it included the info notes like SeatGuru has/had.

I found another site that's similar to aeroLOPA, but neither one matches SeatGuru.

https://seatmaps.com/

Here's an article that promotes aerolopa.com

aeroLOPA: Best Website For Airplane Seat Maps
Ben Schlappig
Published: 10 hours ago

I’m going to be writing a series of posts about some of the tools and services I most use for managing my travel and points. While I often mention these websites and services in passing, I’ve never written dedicated posts about them, so that’s what I’m trying to do now.

In this post I wanted to talk about aeroLOPA, which I consider to be the best website for reviewing airline seat maps and picking the best seats.

In this post:

The sad decline of SeatGuru

If you’ve traveled by plane with any frequency, you probably know that not all airplane seats are created equal, even within the same cabin. Everyone has different preferences, and when it comes to airplane seating arrangements, knowledge is power...

Complete article:

https://onemileatatime.com/guides/aerolopa/

The comments, however, point out some issues with aeroPLAN. I sure we had SeatGuru back when they kept it up.

An article on how to use SeatMaps or AeroLOPA:

What Happened To SeatGuru? And Where To Now Look For Airplane Seats

October 19, 2024

As air travel has evolved, so has the way we book and choose our seats on a plane. In the past, passengers were simply assigned a seat on the plane, with the rest of their party, as part of the cost of their ticket. However, savvy travelers have realized that not all seats are created equal.

Several factors must be considered when choosing the best seat on a plane. Of course, extra legroom is always a plus, and many travelers know to ask for an exit row or bulkhead seat for this reason. However, other factors, such as the orientation of the seat or the proximity to other amenities on the plane, must also be considered.

For example, some seats may be located near the lavatories or the galley, which can be a plus or a minus, depending on your preferences. Other seats may be in a row where the seats in front of you can’t recline, which can benefit if you value your personal space.

When looking for the best seats on a plane, you need reference material. That means having an accurate map of the seats on a plane. Until recently, you only needed to know one website: SeatGuru.

SeatGuru was a combination of reference and crowdsourced material. The website provided seat maps and allowed members to comment on specific seats on a plane, telling whether they were good or not. SeatGuru listed seats as preferable, average, or ones to avoid and provided reasons for each. For instance, they would indicate if a seat couldn’t recline or had a misaligned window...

Complete article:

https://yourmileagemayvary.com...-for-airplane-seats/

This is an older thread.

Seat Guru is done.

End Of An Era: SeatGuru Officially Shuts Down, Redirects To TripAdvisor

by Ben Schlappig
14 hours ago

One of the oldest online tools that frequent flyers relied on has finally shut down. I guess this shouldn’t be surprising, but I also can’t make sense of why it had to be this way…

SeatGuru was launched all the way back in 2001, and I think just about any frequent flyer is familiar with the tool (well, maybe some young people are less familiar with it, but at least a decade ago, everyone used it). SeatGuru would show you the seat maps of most aircraft types, with notes about which seats are good and bad.

Given what a widely used resource this was, TripAdvisor ended up acquiring SeatGuru in 2007. You can see how owning SeatGuru could be an asset for TripAdvisor, in terms of getting people onto the site. However, it seems that it became less and less of a focus over time, and in early 2020, SeatGuru published new seat maps for the last time.

So for over five years, the SeatGuru website was up, but with no updates to seat maps. Well, that has now changed, as noted by DansDeals. When you go to seatguru.com, you’ll now see a message that “SeatGuru has closed down,” encouraging people to go to TripAdvisor instead (which… doesn’t offer the same advice)...

Complete article:

https://onemileatatime.com/news/seatguru-shuts-down/

At least two sites have tried to fill the void that TripAdvisor left when they quit updating then ulitmately shutdown SeatGuru.

SeatMaps is pretty close to what SeatGuru used to be, but not quite as extensive amount of flights. I live in a United hub and SeatMaps focuses on this airline. Additionally, they grade seats with color codes (i.e. feature that made SeatGuru famous) and they have added 3D views.

AeroLopa (LOPA = Location of Passenger Accommodations) is more extensive and data focused (e.g. the seat pitch, Wi-Fi provider, etc), but they don't grade seats with color codes.