How Cabin Verifies Seat Intelligence

Last updated: July 2026

Cabin is not independently audited. What you read below is how we actually work — not a marketing statement about how we aspire to work.

The basic rule

Before any configuration claim — seat layout, row count, total passengers — is published or kept on a page, it is checked against an external source. If it cannot be verified, it gets removed.

We call this verify-then-write. The corollary rule is delete-don’t-swap: a wrong detail gets deleted, not replaced with a different plausible-sounding detail. A page with a gap is more honest than a page with a convincing invention.

How guides are produced

Guides are drafted with AI assistance from airline data and traveler reports, then verified against the sources below — the checks exist because generation at scale produces exactly the errors this page describes.

What we check

Aircraft configuration.Economy layout (for example, 3-4-3 vs. 2-4-2), total seat count by cabin, and row ranges are verified against AeroLOPA, the airline’s published seat map, or a cross-referenced second source when figures conflict.

Retirement dates. For retired aircraft guides, the last scheduled passenger service date is verified against aviation records. Where only the year is confirmed, we state the year — not an invented month or day. Exact date where sourced; year only where not.

Cross-airline contamination.We verify that seat counts, product names, and amenities belong to the airline named on the page — not to a different carrier’s version of the same aircraft type.

Sources

In approximate reliability order:

  • AeroLOPA (aerolopa.com) — detailed seat maps and configuration data, regularly updated
  • Airline published seat maps — direct from carrier booking flows
  • ch-aviation.com and planespotters.net — fleet records, aircraft registrations, retirement dates
  • Aviation news records — contemporaneous coverage of last-service dates, retirement announcements
  • simpleflying.com, Head for Points, The Points Guy — secondary verification for configuration claims

The 2026 catalog audit

In spring/summer 2026, every aircraft guide in the Cabin catalog was reviewed. The audit found:

  • 10 pages covering aircraft types the airline never operated — removed, serving HTTP 410 Gone
  • 29 duplicate pages (same airline and aircraft, no material configuration difference) — consolidated, with 301 redirects from old URLs
  • 112 pages with configuration or factual errors — identified; corrections in progress, tracked page-by-page
  • Multiple guides with seat counts and cabin configurations taken from a competing airline’s version of the same aircraft type, published under the wrong airline’s name

Active catalog after audit: 465 pages as of July 2026.

What “verified” means on a page

A verified [date] label on a guide means:

  • All flagged configuration errors were corrected or documented as false positives, with sources cited
  • The review happened on the stated date
  • Claims that could not be sourced were deleted

It does not mean the page is perfect. Aircraft configurations change, airlines retire types, and some claims may be wrong despite verification. Pages without a verified label have not been through this process. We are not pretending they have been.

Corrections

If you find an error on any page, email corrections@cabin.coach with:

  • The page URL
  • The specific claim you believe is wrong
  • Your source

We will verify and either correct the page or explain why we stand by the original. Usually within a week.