Founder & Editor
John McKean
John McKean is the founder of SeatMap.app. He started it for a simple reason: after years of leaning on SeatGuru only to find its data stale or flat-out wrong, he decided mapping aircraft cabins needed someone who'd actually keep it current.
He's not an airline insider — he's a frequent flyer who spends a fair chunk of his life at 35,000 feet (over 800,000 km and 100 cities since 2012) and a systems engineer by trade, with twenty years spent making sure complex technical data is accurate and trustworthy. He brings the same discipline here: each seat map records the sources it was built from, and carries a "last verified" date so you know exactly how current it is.
When a map says 12A is a great seat, it's because someone checked.
Travel footprint
827,631 km · 100 cities · 16 countries · 70 trips · travelling since 2012
Latest from John McKean
PAL's A350-1000 seat map: 382 seats confirmed, best rows still unproven
Scoot's 787 comes in three versions — here's how to tell which one you'll fly
SeatGuru Delta is gone. Check the exact aircraft, not a static map.
American Airlines Main Cabin Extra: worth it, and when to skip it
The cheapest business award is often the oldest seat. Here's the fix.
Basic economy vs main cabin: the one thing it takes away first
Southwest ended open seating. Here's the fare that still picks for you.
Southwest's A/B/C boarding is gone. Here's the group order that replaced it.
Standing airplane seats: the saddle seat that stayed on the expo floor
What fits under an airplane seat: the limit is what gets measured
Not all exit rows are equal — here's how to pick the one worth having.
How we'd pick the best airplane seat on any flight
Emirates put a shower on the A380. Here's the seat that wastes it.
United 787-9: the Polaris seat to skip and the one to book
SeatGuru shut down after 24 years. This is the site quietly replacing it.