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Aerolopa makes it easy to choose the best seat on your next flight
If you’ve flown very much you know very well that not all seats are created equal. So how do you choose what the best seat seat is on your next flight? Well… it used to be that SeatGuru was the king of seats, but as Gary Leff pointed out – (big hattip to him and Mainly Miles,) Aerolopa is the new king of seatmaps. Their website is super easy to use, has tons of information, is super clean, stylish, and easily beats SeatGuru. Let’s take a look at Aerolopa and an example of an American Airlines 772. Images are courtesy of Aerolopa
Aerolopa has information on a lot of different airlines
Each airlines is broken down by seat type. Note that these are just a few airlines, they have a long list not shown below.
Let’s look at American Airlines 772
It clearly shows you the number of seats in each configuration:
- 37 business class
- 24 premium economy
- 212 economy
The AA 772 has two different kinds of business class seat…in reality they look like this where one configuration has seats that face backwards and are inferior ( the pic with me and my buddy Dave ) and then the best iteration with super diamonds with all seats facing forward
The Aerolopa American Airlines 777-200 Seat Map
- Everything is to scale
- You can see which seats are Main Cabin Extra
- Seat with basinet capabilities
- Window placement
- Where the bathrooms are
- The list goes on
Aerolopa additional information
This is probably my favorite aspect – it tells you who manufactures the seats, the wifi its equipped with, screen size, etc.
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Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card
Welcome Offer
Earn 60,000 bonus points after you spend $4,000 on purchases in the first 3 months from account opening.
Annual Fee
$95
Points Earned
Transferrable Chase Ultimate Rewards
- 5x on all travel purchased through Chase Travel℠
- 3x on dining, including eligible delivery services for takeout & dining out
- 3x on select streaming services
- 3x on online grocery purchases
- (excluding Target, Walmart and wholesale clubs)
- $50 Annual Chase Travel Hotel Credit via Chase Travel℠
- The begins immediately for new cardmembers and after your account anniversary for existing cardmembers
- 2x on all other travel
- 10% Anniversary Bonus
- Every year you keep the card, your total spend will yield a 10% points bonus. If you spend $10k in a year, you’ll get 1k bonus points
- Chase Sapphire Preferred continues to redeem at 1.25c in the Chase Travel℠ and the slew of other benefits remain in tact including Auto Rental Collision Damage Waiver ( primary ), purchase protections, etc.
- Points are transferrable to 14 Ultimate Rewards partners
- Redeem in Chase Travel℠ for 1.25 cents per point
- No foreign transaction fees
- Suite of Travel and Purchase Coverage
- Auto Rental Collision Damage Waiver is my favorite
- Get complimentary access to DashPass which unlocks $0 delivery fees and lower service fees for a minimum of one year when you activate by December 31, 2027.
- $95 Annual Fee
We keep an up to date spreadsheet that lists the best ever offers: You can find that spreadsheet here.
Historically 80k is a very, very good offer and hit in both 2022 and 2023. In 2021, we saw the offer hit an all time high of 100k. Who knows if that will ever come back.
Main Cast:
Cards that earn flexible points and should be used on the bulk of your purchases.
Supporting Cast:
Cards that earn fixed points in the currency of the airline/hotel and can not be transferred at attractive rates. These cards yield benefits that make it worth keeping, but not necessarily worth putting a lot of your everyday spend on.
The Chase Sapphire Preferred® is exceptional starter card and offers transferrable Ultimate Rewards, and pairs well with other Chase cards.
If you carry this card alongside Chase’s cashback cards like the Chase Freedom Flex® and Chase Freedom Unlimited® or the business versions: Ink Business Cash® , Ink Business Unlimited® you can combine the points into Preferred account and transfer into hotel and airline partners
Annual fee is quite low at $95 a year + you get a 10% anniversary bonus on points + $50 hotel credit in Chase travel.
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