Thu, June 17, 2004
"Elbow room!" said Daniel Boone—2:24 PM
I had to purchase a flight on the American Airlines website this week, and of course the most important part of any online flight booking is picking your seats. Up until recently, I always flew Delta. So I only had experience with their austere, abstract seat picker. But then Delta decided that they hate their passengers, so I had to switch.
Two major differences using American: they orient the plane vertically, which is wildly stupid because all computer screens are wider than they are tall; and, they use little stick figures to represent "claimed" seats instead of a grey box.
Unsurprisingly, the little stick figures hog the armrests, just like the real passengers do.
