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Comment by marssaxman | Hacker News Reader

I'd sort by legroom if the flight search engines offered that information, but it is not available: price is the only discriminator.

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Exactly.

Want +3in legroom? For each flight, go to a flight forum and punch in the route to figure out what plane they're flying. Google the airline and that plane to figure out how much legroom is available.

Give up and just fly jetblue and/or southwest, and if they don't go, decline to travel.

Skip the forums.

1. Flightaware

2. Seatguru

3...

4. Comfortable flying

(Step 3 is becoming a millionaire that flies business class.)

thanks for the link to seatguru

All airline seat selection pages I've ever seen show a map of the plane's seats, nobody needs a forum for that.

You have to select the airline and buy the ticket before you get that map, don't you? By then it's too late. I'm talking about the initial search process, where you decide which flight you're going to take. The only data present are the price, arrival & departure times, and the airline name.

And how much leg room do each of those seats have?

Or look up the seat/cabin details on Seat Guru.

KLM lets you pay extra for sitting next to an emergency exit, which gives you a nice legroom increase.

I try to avoid emergency exit seats because they take away the storage space underneath the seat in the front. I'd rather have provisions, laptop, pen, book(s), tissues etc. available without fetching them from overhead storage, and sacrifice the extra leg space.

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