Methodology

A layout enters the data only from the airline's own public pages: its aircraft or seat map page for that type. A person opens the page in a browser and reads the cabins, the rows, the seat letters, the exits, the galleys and lavatories, and the pitch and width the airline states for each cabin. We do not copy from other seat-map sites, and we do not guess a layout from the aircraft type.

Each layout is stored with the address of the page it was read from, its title, the airline that published it and the day it was last read. The list at the bottom of this page names every page in use.

The rows of each cabin are added up and compared with the seat count the airline publishes for that cabin. The cabins are then added up and compared with the total for the aircraft. A layout that does not add up is not published until the difference is explained.

A figure the airline does not state is shown as not published. Nothing is filled in by estimate, and a layout is never extended to a version of the aircraft the airline does not list.

Some facts are the airline's own, in its words: an extra-legroom seat, a bassinet position, a seat with limited recline. They are shown as the airline's marks and attributed to it.

The rest is worked out by our code from the rows, exits and facilities of the layout, with the same rules for every seat. We state these facts about the layout only, not about comfort.

Exit row: the row at a pair of emergency exit doors, that is the first row at or after a door placed before a row, or the row a door is placed after. The front door before the first row of the aircraft and the rear door after its last row do not make an exit row. Overwing exits count like any other exit.

Bulkhead: a wall ahead of the row. That is the case when there is no row ahead, when a door pair, a galley, a lavatory, a closet, a bar or a crew rest sits between the row ahead and this row, or when the first row of a cabin does not directly follow the last row of the cabin before it. The first row of a cabin that sits directly behind another cabin has seats in front of it and is not a bulkhead.

Nothing in front: the seat is not on a bulkhead row and its letter does not exist in the row ahead, so no seat sits directly in front of it. Exit rows and seats with nothing in front are the seats with more room by layout. In cabins where alternate rows have different seats, such as staggered suites, a missing letter in the row ahead says nothing about room, so no seat there is marked this way.

Last row of a cabin: the cabin's highest row number. Next to a galley or lavatory: one sits directly ahead of or behind the row, on the seat's side of the aircraft. Left is the first block of seats, right the last, and centre the blocks between them.

Window, middle and aisle come from the seat letter's place in its block of seats. Seat pitch, width and bed length are the airline's figures for the cabin, not measurements of a single seat.

Some airline maps do not show exits, galleys or lavatories. For such a layout the exit rows, bulkheads and seats near galleys are unknown, not absent, and the page says so instead of showing a zero.

The date on a layout is the day it was last read from the airline's page. The date on a page is the newest of its layouts' dates, and it is the date the sitemap reports. Airlines refit aircraft and swap them between routes, so the aircraft on your flight may differ from any layout shown here. Confirm your seat in your booking before relying on a map.

SeatMaps is not affiliated with any airline or aircraft maker.

If a seat count, a row, an exit or a figure differs from what the airline shows, write to support@pyxl.pro with the page, the seat or figure, and the airline page that shows the right layout. A report that holds up changes the data, the page and its date together.