by Jessica Howell

Frequent travelers, whether for business or pleasure, now have a place on the web to call home. SeatGuru.com, founded in 2001, is quickly gaining popularity as a resource for long-legged, antsy and just plain frustrated travelers who want to know the truth on airplane seating.

Equipped with seat dimensions and diagrams that highlight good seats (green), "be aware" seats (yellow) and poor seats (red), SeatGuru points out exit rows, bathrooms and even power port locations for over 29 airlines including American, Delta, JetBlue and United Airlines. (If you're wondering, "be aware yellow" means that one seat differs from the others and may have no window, limited legroom or another minor drawback.)

Easily navigational, the site is constructed around a column of large, easy-to-click tabs that list airlines alphabetically. Choose your service, then select your aircraft from a list of those available and you're promptly viewing seat plans, in-flight amenities and more at the touch of a button. Almost too easy. You'll also find pros and cons of bulkhead seating (those seats directly behind a bulkhead, or wall that separates first class from coach, etc.) and on which aircrafts to try and book this seat and which to pass.

The perfect time to test SeatGuru came last month, before I headed to Hawaii via an eight-hour flight departing from Minneapolis/St. Paul. Eight hours is a long time in the air - and I wanted to verify exact proximity to the (most-likely) sneezing, cold-infested passenger that I would sit next to. Twenty-one inches, if you care to know, not nearly as bad as I expected.

If your flight seating and SeatGuru's doesn't quite match up, drop them a note by clicking the "submit comments" tab. About three times a month users feedback and comments are incorporated into the site.

If time is not on your side and you find yourself hustling from one terminal to the next, shuffled onto another flight, wanting to switch seats at the last minute, or just plain bored - you can log onto the mobile version of the site - http://mobile.seatguru.com - that is optimized for handheld devices like cell phones and PDAs. Although not as detailed as the original, you'll still be able to find equal aircraft coverage, seat maps, graphics and color-coding, as well as pitch and width measurements.