Sad News: AeroLOPA, now Enchittified

The phone number requirement makes it a hard stop for me.

I'd never heard of AeroLOPA, so I just checked it out for the first time.

I don't like the left-right scrolling at all, but I'm able to see all the airlines without any trouble.

I used to use SeatGuru.com, and sadly, it's shut down for good. Another good alternative is https://seatmaps.com/.

Those who run AeroLOPA are active on FlyerTalk. You can read their stated reason for now requiring email and phone info. I leave it to the reader to make their own judgement of the claim...

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/37535856-post58.html

David, thanks for posting this. AeroLOPA has always been a great resource.

I'm looking at the BA forum at Flyertalk that has a thread on AeroLOPA. Members are giving AeroLOPA an earful on different issues including bugs with these changes and AeroLOPA is responding to their posts. Here's a few of the responses from AeroLOPA:

Post 284

Post 316

Post 321

Hopefully more improvements and a more user friendly environment will follow.

Meanwhile I'll take a look at the site that Lane has shared.

Hmmm.

I hadn't found Aerolopa very useful the couple of times I had looked at it.

If really is too bad that there is no longer anything as good as SeatGuru was.

For those taking a 737 across large stretches of water (to Hawaii, to Ireland) and need some extra legroom, AeroLopa is helpful identifying which seats in coach have an extra 1+” of legroom. For Alaska Air it’s the port side behind the exit rows, for Aer Lingus it’s the starboard side. It depends on which side of the plane there’s a second lavatory in back.

AeroLopa identifies this, the other ones don’t.

That Aerolopa's renderings of seats and positioning of windows are to scale is the most useful information to me. No issue navigating or scrolling through the site. I don't care for the need to provide a phone number for an account, but beyond that I see no issues creating an account and I've always maintained a junk email address. Meh much ado about nothing.

Honestly I just do a search on flyertalk for seat recommendations. Works for me in most instances

Yes, the new layout sucks. On my Mac, I find I can use the scroll bar at the top of each section to move to the plane I want to see. So far, I've only used the seat layout (and windows), so I've not needed to actually set up an account and log in.

For more seat info, you can use seatmaps.co: https://seatmaps.com/airlines/, but they do not show window placement.