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Search by the seat, not the flight.
Describe how you want to fly and we’ll tell you which flights on your route and date physically carry that seat — configuration, layout, and the exact seats to select.
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Who it’s for
The questions people actually ask before booking.
“Can we actually sit together?”
For couples and families: which flights have a true pair with no divider between the seats — not just two seats in the same row.
“Will my legs fit in this seat?”
For tall travellers: pitch and width vary more inside one airline than between airlines, right down to the sub-fleet flying your route.
“Where’s the bassinet on this plane?”
For new parents: bassinet positions depend on the cabin configuration, and booking sites never show you where they are.
How it works
Two links nobody else has joined.
1 · Describe the seat
Type it the way you’d say it out loud — “business class seated next to my wife”, or “best seat for someone 6’5”.” No filters to learn.
2 · Match the cabin
We check 235 verified configurations, mapped seat by seat from the aircraft’s own floor plans, and find the ones that physically contain what you asked for.
3 · Return real flights
Live schedules resolve which aircraft flies your route on your date, so you get bookable flight numbers and the seats to select — with a swap-risk signal.
Product preview · not yet live
Try
Seated together in lie-flat
Best seat for 6’5”
3 flights carry the seat you described
JFK–SFO · Thu 2 Oct · Business
Planned for launch: each match will be checked against the airline’s current seat map at search time, so a pair is only shown while both seats are still open — with sold, blocked and crew-held seats filtered out.
The database
235 verified cabins, mapped seat by seat.
Every configuration across American, Delta and United — layout, seat count, pitch, which seats pair up, and whether both passengers keep aisle access.
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Airline
All
American
Delta
United
Cabin
All
First
Business
Premium Economy
Economy
Try a search
Two seats together
Nobody climbs over you
Bassinet rows
Why it’s hard
Airlines sell cabins as if they were uniform. They aren’t.
Type isn’t configuration
One airline can fly the same Boeing 777-200 in three internal arrangements. Booking sites show the same aircraft name for all of them; the seat can differ completely.
Layout notation, decoded
2-2 means pairs either side of one aisle. 1-2-1 means solo windows, a centre pair, and every passenger touching an aisle. That string answers most of what people actually ask.
Built from the floor plan
Airlines publish marketing seat maps. We work from the aircraft’s actual layout drawings — missing windows, seats that don’t recline, bassinet positions — graded fact by fact.
Stop booking cabins. Start booking seats.
Free while Seat Finder is in beta. Full US mainline coverage, route and date search, and swap alerts are next.
Joining adds you to The Contrail newsletter — that’s where waitlist invites, coverage updates and launch news are sent.