Online seating options

Can you help me with a university project...

Does anybody know of any airlines/ train services (worldwide) that offer you the ability to choose your seat online during the booking process? BA, Air France all appear to save this feature until checking online.

Online seating options

I fly with a number of airlines when on business, SK, BA, Lufthansa, Iberia and so on and they don%26#39;t (as far as i am aware) allow you to pick your seat until check in, however i am a member of the BA executive club and as part of that you can select a preference (ie aisle seat) so whenever i check in i usually get what i want.

Online seating options

';BA, Air France all appear to save this feature until checking online.'; Not sure I follow you on that. I think most transcontinental flights allow choosing seats at time of booking. You may have to fill in info for credit card etc. and buy the seats before you see that though.

Continental airlines alIows you to look at seat availability before deciding which flight to chose.

When you book online with United you can choose your seats at that time.

Many of the airlines, American for example, will assign you seats when you book on-line but then you can change them to what you want.

Not sure if this will help your project but seat guru is a website that show airplane seating for most major airlines and different planes.

www.seatguru.com/

I%26#39;ve pre-booked my seats online with United, Continental, Virgin and American Airlines.

With trains in the UK you can%26#39;t choose your seat but you can choose whether you want to sit foward or backward facing.

It%26#39;s my understanding that US airlines for domestic flights will allow you to choose your seats at the time of purchase (or assign them maybe for some airlines) up to so many seats. Once a certain number of seats have been claimed, everyone else has to wait until check-in to choose which seat they%26#39;ll sit in. So, sometimes you can choose your seat at purchase and sometimes you can%26#39;t, but I%26#39;m not sure that has as much to do with which airline you fly as with when you buy.

I%26#39;ve chosen the seats at booking with both BA and United.

Dangriffin, what exactly is the focus of your university project? Surely it%26#39;s not just whether some airlines, etc. allow you to check in on-line - some do, some don%26#39;t. Is there are a larger topic?