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
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.