View Seats on Orbitz

Jul 20th, 2004 | By Jared Blank

Fantastic new feature on Orbitz debuted yesterday: You can now see which seats are available on a given flight BEFORE you purchase for nearly every flight on the site. Combine that information with a glance over at SeatGuru.com and you’ll never be stuck in a middle seat that doesn’t recline again. Well done, Orbitz.

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Jeffry August 19th, 2004 12:49 am :
Now if only Orbitz.com would let you save search perameters so that you can come back later and run the search again without typing everything in again. Especially helpful for multi-city flight searches…if they’d do it.

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