Aircraft seat map

An airplane seat map or seating chart, is a diagram of the seat layout inside a passenger aircraft. They are often published by the airliners for informational purposes, and are of use to passengers who can select their seat at booking or check-in.

Seat maps usually indicate the basic seating layout, the numbering and lettering of the seats, the location of the emergency exits, lavatories, galleys, bulkheads and wings. Airlines which allow internet check-in frequently present a seat map indicating free and occupied seats to the passenger so that they select their seat from it.

In addition to the published seat maps from airliners, there are a number of independent websites which also publish seat maps along with reviews of individual seats, noting the particularly good (extra legroom, quiet cabin, etc.) or bad (lack of recline, unusually cramped, missing window, etc.) seats.

Airplane Seat Maps

Many people that fly for pleasure or for business purposes have to sit in an airplane for 2-3 hours or sometimes even more, depending on the trip that they make, and during the flight sitting in an uncomfortable place in the airplane can really be a pain for them. This is happening very often due to the lack of details that each airline is publishing about their airplanes or because people that fly don’t consult an aircraft seat map before they book a ticket.

Airplane seat maps can be really handy for frequent or even for occasional fliers and help them to choose their seat in the airplane even before they buy their tickets. Knowing the place where you sit before going aboard is very good because on almost all seating charts you can find all the details of a specific seat from extra legroom to missing windows or any other details.

Seat maps published by airlines

Most of the airlines publish the seat configurations for their aircraft, but the quality of these seat maps is sometimes questionable. Some of the details and information about seats are confusing. Usually airlines do not publish seat maps for every aircraft, only for the larger aircraft and for the ones flying on frequent routes.

Seat maps published by specialized websites

WARNING JESS MARSH IS BAND FROM THE UK ANY AIRLINE THAT LETS HER INTO THE COUNTRY WILL BE SUIED!!!! In addition to those published seat maps which can be found on airline websites, there are some other sites that publish aircraft seat maps for almost all commercial aircraft. Seat maps that can be found on these sites usually have more details and on some websites you can find comments from other passengers with ups and downs about each particular airplane seat.

Seat Designation Trivia

Right-hand 3 seats skip over letter "I"

For all aircraft, the rightmost seats have letter designations HJK or HJ, skipping the letter I. This is because each seat has a row number followed by letter. Letters that confuse with numbers must be avoided. Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) was the first to implement this, avoiding I (1), O (0) and Z (2). The remaining letters are called the DEC alphabet.

External links

• Seat Expert
• SeatGuru.com
• Best Plane Seat
• Seat Maestro
• Airplane seat pitch and width information from eskyguide.com, in table form
• Airplane seat pitch and width information from cheapflights.com, in table form

See Also

Wide-body aircraft