Air Valid Dorks Out With Airline Seat Pitch Stats

May 5, 2009 at 9:01 AM | by JetSetCD | 1 Comment

As air travel fiends, we actually relish the part of booking a flight which involves choosing our seat on the plane. Actually, we almost always take the extra step to hit up websites like FlightStats to check the individual airplane's details and it's historical performance on the route. Apparently, FlightStats and other such sites now have a new bit of competition from across the pond: Air Valid.

Air Valid offers the typical tools of a flight data website; there's an airfare search engine (Mobissimo), a list of blacklisted airlines, general plane make information and airline number of passengers per year. The site's big claim to fame, however, seems to be its seat pitch information, allowing taller travelers to compare airline's seat space.

For example, we ambled into their "airline comparator" engine and chose to compare four airlines: Aer Lingus, Air Canada, Icelandair, and United. Aside from finding out that United operates 438 more airplanes than Icelandair, we can also see that one should expect those planes to have 31.4 to 32" inches of space between seat backs, beating Aer Lingus' 29" (according to Air Valid, but 31" if you ask an Aer Lingus representative) by enough to make a difference to the longer-legged passengers.

So why would you use Air Valid? If you're British, you probably already do since it's a UK company, but we'll stick to liking their "comparator" for the dorky information it feeds our travel nerd souls.

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