The process isn’t nearly as complex as one might think. When booking a flight, it’s commonplace for airlines to list the type of plane being used in the flight details information on the reservation page. If it happens to not be there, head to a travel search engine like Google Flights or SeatGuru, and once you plug in the flight details, it will list the precise model of aircraft for each segment of the flight, as well as other useful details like carry-on capacity, flight amenities, and information regarding children, among other features.
The seat configurations may help in understanding just how comfortable a flight may be, and such details can easily be overlooked during the often tense booking process. At SeatGuru, for instance, a potentially useful feature even lists some of the best seats and worst seats as rated by users, with little reviews on the side. Writing a review for plane seats may seem hyper-specific, but can be more than useful when you have a long, upcoming cross-country flight. The best seats are rated green, the worst are rated red, and some are green and yellow, because they apparently received mixed reviews, like a movie. Best to use your instincts in that situation.
