System and method for displaying airline seats

A system for interactively displaying one or more seats on an airplane to a plurality of end users over a network, the system comprising:

• a data storage storing a plurality of entries denoting a plurality of available individual seats on an airplane;
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• a server, configured to:
• query the data storage for information descriptive of available individual seats on one or more airplanes;
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• transmit data to an application running on a general purpose computer, the data including the information descriptive of available individual seats on one or more airplanes, the data processed by the application to generate a graphical user interface on the general purpose computer that comprises an interactive seating map representing individual seats on the one or more airplanes, the data processed by the application to generate an additional display of information about one or more of the individual seats in response to a user interaction with the graphical user interface, the interaction being triggered when placing a mouse over a portion of the graphical user interface.