The sad truth about airline seat maps — usatoday.com

Frugal fliers shop for the best airfare possible, then once settled on the tickets, have one last little chore: Scoping out the airline seat map to decide where to sit. That's when the trouble starts. Q: Airline seat maps show all the available empty seats on a plane, correct? A: Not always. It is at the airlines' discretion what to show, and they use said discretion. Sometimes this means showing only a few of the available seats.

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