1. Before you fly I recommend checking this website:
www.seatguru.com . It gives you an idea of the seat location in each airplane.
2. When buying airline tickets online, you better call the airline to get seat assignment immediately. If you arrive at the ticket counter without a seat assigned on an overbooked flight, you have a 90% chance to get dumped off. Remember about this because next flight can be few hours or a full day later.
3. Try to check in at least 90 minutes before departing. Otherwise you can lose your seat.
4. When you check your luggage, make sure they tag it directly to your destination. If you have to change airlines, you may not have enough time to claim luggage. If you want to make sure that everything will be done correctly, you’d better take with you all confirmations. You can print them at home.

5. Book all your flight with at least 120 minutes between. If you have a delay, the airline has to get you the next possible flight. If there is no flight on the same day they must give you hotel and meal. If you don’t have at least 90 minutes between your flights scheduled and you are late, the airlines can consider it to be your fault. In this case they will not give you any refund.
6. Don’t pay big bucks for airport parking. Instead, use airport transfer service. In most cases it’s faster and more convenient.

9. Fly Comfortable
• Get more leg room. Ask crew for the window seat near emergency exit. This way you will get huge leg space. Visit seatguru.com before your flight and check where the emergency row in your airplane is.
• Seat Pitch is the distance from any point on one seat to the exact same point on the seat in front or behind it. While it is not the exact equivalent of "legroom", it does give a very good approximation of how much seat room you should expect. Bottom line: the more seat pitch the better.
If the airlines publish seat pitch or seat width information, it is listed on the website. Some airlines, however, do not publish these measurements, in which case they are most likely absent from the site. In this case, try calling the airline directly for additional information.
• Seat maps can often be found on the airline’s website; if you
cannot locate them, an airline phone agent may be able to direct you to one. While these maps will not offer seat-by-seat
commentary or color coding, they will provide a general seating
layout.
It is important to note that different airlines almost always configure the interior of the same version of a plane differently. Using another airline’s seat map will not always provide accurate information.
• A power port, usually located in the seat arm rest, enables you to plug in electronic devices such as laptops and portable DVD players while on the plane. If there is a power port location at your seat it will be noted by a black dot on the seatguru.com seating map. The three widely used types of power ports are AC, Cigarette and Empower. Both the Cigarette and Empower ports require special adapters which can be purchased from a number of retailers like CompUSA or Wal-Mart. If power ports are available on an aircraft there will be a laptop icon on that plane’s webpage on the seatguru.com site.


• Seats colored yellow are meant to alert travelers that there is
something different about the seat that flyers should be aware of – i.e. no window, slightly limited recline or legroom, tray table is in the armrest etc. These factors are not severe enough to warrant being colored red, but they are important pieces of data that the traveler should know about as they might affect seat selection.
Seats colored white are considered standard seats for that
particular aircraft. Standard seats are usually preferable to yellow seats, and always preferable to red-colored seats.
• How can you check what type of plane you’re flying? Usually, your itinerary has a three digit code denoting "equipment type". You can look at the airline schedule (available from the airlines in both paper and online form) as they often list the plane types. As a last resort, you can always contact your travel agent or airline directly.
• Exit Row. The airlines and FAA have regulations concerning who is allowed to sit in an Exit Row seat. Some of the requirements are as follows: the passenger must be 15 years of age or older, have full mobility and the ability to understand and communicate instructions as well as operate the emergency equipment if necessary. If you plan on booking an Emergency Exit and are concerned that you or those you are traveling with do not meet the criteria you should contact the airline you are flying for further information.