Data updates: what we recheck, and what changes
SeatRuler re-checks its published sources on a rolling cadence and logs every pass here. The sources were last re-scanned on , and no published figure had changed. When a figure does change, the change shows up here, dated, with the source.
The log
Quarterly re-scan of airline, cruise, theme-park and transit sources; no figures changed
Most of the catalog came due on the rolling cadence at once this time: 512 citations across 279 source pages, covering airline seat widths, cruise onboard and shore-excursion limits, theme-park ride guidance and Amtrak seat figures. Every figure we could read is still on its source page. That includes American's and Delta's per-aircraft seat widths, Alaska's and Frontier's width charts, Norwegian's full size-and-weight table, Carnival's BOLT and SkyRide limits, and Southwest's chart (still 15.5 to 17.0 inches on the 737-700 and 15.5 to 17.8 inches on the 737-800 and 737 MAX 8). The automated checker flagged a handful of airline pages that turned out to be unchanged when we opened them in a full browser: KLM's armrest widths sit inside a collapsed panel and are published in centimeters (still 41.5 to 46 cm in Economy), Air France publishes 40 to 45 cm and rounds the inch figure itself, and Aer Lingus briefly served a bot check before showing the same 17 and 17 to 18 inch widths. This was a recheck, not a re-verification: it confirms a figure is still on the page, while the 'verified' date on each figure only advances when a person reads it on the source.
Six source links went stale; five are refreshed, one is queued
This re-scan caught more link rot than usual, and we repointed every link we could to a page that still shows the same figure. Princess moved its Antigua rainforest zip-line listing to a new address; the 235 lb limit is unchanged there. Norwegian's Canadian shore-excursion terms page now redirects to an unrelated promotions page, but the same terms, including the 250 lb helicopter and flightseeing surcharge rule, are word for word on its U.S. page, which we now cite. Disney moved the Soarin' Around the World page; the 40-inch height minimum is unchanged. Six Flags Magic Mountain replaced its old accessibility-guide link with a new Guest Assistance Guide linked from the park's accessibility page, and the larger-guest language we quote is in it. Hawaiian Airlines' old help-center site no longer exists at all. Our Hawaiian seat widths were always read from a September 2025 archived copy of that page, so the citation now points straight at that archived copy. One link has no replacement yet: Princess has dropped its Paihia parasail listing in New Zealand (500 lbs combined), and we found no archived copy, so that example is queued for a fresh source. No figure changed in any of this. We log source rot in the open, because a dead link is exactly the kind of quiet decay that makes reference data go wrong.
Re-scanned the cruise onboard limits and Southwest's seat specs; no figures changed
Thirty-eight citations came due on the rolling cadence, covering Royal Caribbean, Carnival, Norwegian and Princess onboard activities plus Southwest's seat specifications. Every figure we could read is still on its source page: Norwegian's full size-and-weight table (go-karts 265 lbs / 55 in, Ocean Loops 300 lbs / 48 in, The Rush and The Drop 330 lbs, the ropes course, Galaxy Pavilion and the rock wall), Royal Caribbean's CocoCay and Perfect Storm slides at 300 lbs / 48 in, Crown's Edge at 297 lbs, Category 6 at 265 lbs, Carnival's BOLT at 300 lbs / 52 in and SkyRide at 250 lbs / 54 in. Southwest's seat-width chart is unchanged as well: 15.5 to 17.0 inches on the 737-700 and 15.5 to 17.8 inches on the 737-800 and 737 MAX 8. As most weeks, the automated checker flagged those Southwest widths only because the help center draws its table with JavaScript that a plain fetch cannot read; the live page in a full browser showed the same numbers. This was a recheck, not a re-verification: it confirms a figure is still on the page, while the 'verified' date on each figure only advances when a person reads it on the source.
A Carnival water-sports source link went stale; the figures behind it did not
Carnival's help center stopped serving the slug form of its shipboard water-sports policy URL, the article we cite for the Twister Waterslide, the Kaleid-O-Slide and the rest of the named slides. The link now bounces to the help-center index. We found the same article still live under a different URL form and read it: the limits are exactly what we publish, with Twister at 42 inches and 265 pounds on Sunshine, Vista and Panorama, Kaleid-O-Slide at 48 inches and 265 pounds, and the other named slides still clustered at 42 to 51 inches and 265 or 300 pounds. No figure changes; we are refreshing the source link so the citation points somewhere a reader can actually open. The separate Carnival SportSquare ropes-course link we flagged on 2026-06-30 is still dead, and that weight limit is still queued for direct confirmation with the line. We log source rot in the open, because a dead link is exactly the kind of quiet decay that makes reference data go wrong.
Re-scanned Southwest's seat specs; no figures changed
Five citations came due on the rolling cadence this week, all of them Southwest's. We re-scanned the official aircraft seat-specifications chart and the extra-seat policy article. The published seat widths are unchanged: 15.5 to 17.0 inches on the 737-700, and 15.5 to 17.8 inches on the 737-800 and 737 MAX 8. The automated checker flagged the width figures again, as it does most weeks, because Southwest's help center draws its table with JavaScript that a plain fetch cannot read; opening the live page in a full browser showed the same numbers we already had. Southwest's help center now carries an assigned-seating banner, but the seat-specification chart itself is untouched. This was a recheck, not a re-verification: it confirms a figure is still on the page, while the 'verified' date on each figure only advances when a person reads it on the source.
Re-scanned Southwest's seat specs; no figures changed
This week's rolling cadence brought Southwest's sources due again. We re-scanned the official aircraft seat-specifications chart and confirmed the published seat widths are unchanged: 15.5 to 17.0 inches on the 737-700, and 15.5 to 17.8 inches on the 737-800 and 737 MAX 8. As before, the automated checker flagged these because Southwest's help center renders its table with JavaScript that a plain fetch cannot read; loading the live page in a full browser showed the same figures we already had. This was a recheck, not a re-verification: it confirms a figure is still on the page, while the 'verified' date on each figure only advances when a person reads it on the source.
Re-scanned Southwest's seat specs; no figures changed
This week's rolling cadence brought Southwest's sources due. We re-scanned the official aircraft seat-specifications chart and confirmed the published seat widths are unchanged: 15.5 to 17.0 inches on the 737-700, and 15.5 to 17.8 inches on the 737-800 and 737 MAX 8. The automated checker briefly flagged these because Southwest's help center renders its table with JavaScript that a plain fetch cannot read; loading the live page in a full browser showed the same figures we already had. This was a recheck, not a re-verification: it confirms a figure is still on the page, while the 'verified' date on each figure only advances when a person reads it on the source.
Re-scanned every source; no figures changed
We re-scanned all 105 published cruise and airline sources with our automated checker. No published weight, height, or seat-width figure had changed since we recorded it. This was a recheck, not a re-verification: the checker confirms a figure is still on the page, while the 'verified' date on each figure only advances when a person reads it on the source. We also tightened the checker so formatting differences, like 17.0 versus 17 inches or widths published in centimeters, no longer get flagged as changes.
Caught a Carnival source link going stale
The checker flagged a Carnival help page, the one documenting the SportSquare ropes-course weight limit, now returning 'this answer is no longer available.' The limit itself is unaffected and was already queued for direct confirmation with Carnival; we are refreshing the source link. We log source rot like this in the open, because a dead link is exactly the kind of quiet decay that makes reference data go wrong.
How we keep this current
- How often is SeatRuler's data rechecked?
- Sources are re-scanned on a rolling cadence: airline seat figures monthly for Southwest and quarterly for the rest; cruise onboard limits every two months, shore-excursion examples quarterly, tender guidance twice a year; theme-park ride and height figures and transit seat figures quarterly. New ships, refurbishments, or ride reopenings trigger an off-cycle check.
- What is the difference between "verified" and "re-scanned"?
- "Verified [date]" means a person read that figure on the operator's own source on that date. "Re-scanned [date]" means our automated checker confirmed the figure is still on the page. A recheck never advances a verified date; only a human read does. We separate them so the verified date never claims more than it should.
- What happens when a figure changes?
- The change is confirmed against the live source, the data point is updated with a fresh date and source, and it is logged here. Where a source link goes dead, we say so and refresh it, rather than letting it quietly rot.
Want the raw record? Every figure's source and date live in the open datasets, and the per-source dates tell you exactly how old each number is.