Secrets to Finding the Best Airline Seats for Your Next Golf Vacation
By David Baum |
In my previous tip, I shared my secrets for finding the best airline fares and flights for your next golf vacation. Today, I'm letting you in on one of my secrets for finding the best airline seats.
In fact, I am writing this while stretching out in seat 14F on a Continental Airlines Boeing 737-500. As far as coach flying goes, this is one of the best airline seats around. If you don't believe me, check out this 25-second video.
You see, there is no seat 13F (or 13A) on a Continental Airlines 737-500. So, by booking seat 14F (or 14A), you get a window seat that reclines fully and has enough leg room (and, in all likelihood, width) to keep a seven-foot NBA superstar fully outstretched.
You don't fly Continental? No problem. Here's how you can score the best airline seats for your next golf vacation, no matter what airline you use.
Once you know the flight you want to take, visit the Seat Guru website at seatguru.com. The Seat Guru website is an invaluable resource in my book. It allows you to see the exact seat configuration (and suggests the best airline seats) for each seat class for each plane flown by each major commercial airline across the globe. Here's the best part: it's free to use!
In my example above, I first learned that the airplane (or "equipment" in aviation-speak) serving my route was a 737-500. Then, I checked Seat Guru and saw that the best airline seats for that particular plane were 14A and 14F, as the seats in front of them had been removed. After that, I simply booked my tickets through the Continental Airlines website and used their seat selector to reserve 14F. It was that easy.
We all know that these days, the worst part of a golf vacation is often the commercial travel experience. By using resources like Seat Guru to find the best airline seats, you can make it just a little more palatable.
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