Air Canada Boeing 737 MAX 8 seat map

Air Canada MAINLINE Boeing 737 MAX 8 in its two-class layout: 16 Business / 153 Economy = 169. The 169 total and 16/153 split are from the Wikipedia Air Canada fleet table (neutral; as of April 2026, 45 aircraft), whose MAX 8 row reads 16 Business / — / 153 Economy / 169 with the note “To be transferred to Air Canada Rouge through 2026.” Air Canada publicly reports 54 of the 153 Economy seats are paid “Preferred” seats (a forward-cabin/exit-row location tier), but does NOT publish which rows, so — following the Air Canada house convention (see ac-789-298) — Preferred is NOT modelled as a separate cabin/zone; only the structurally roomier rows (the Economy bulkhead and the two overwing exit rows) carry an extra_legroom flag, and those are noted as Preferred. RETROFIT: these 45 mainline airframes are being progressively reconfigured to the 177-seat Air Canada Rouge layout (12 Business / 18 Preferred / 147 Economy) through the end of 2026 — modelled as config ac-7m8-177 (supersededBy). fleetCount 45 is the combined MAX 8 fleet still in transition, so the live split between this config and ac-7m8-177 shifts over time. The ROW GRID IS DERIVED, not a placard scan: aircanada.com seat maps are JavaScript-rendered (static fetch returns no seat data) and competitor seat-map sites are prohibited. DERIVATIONS: Business 2-2 rows 1-4 (columns A/C/D/F) = 16; forward galley/lavatory class divider after row 4 (rows 5-9 unnumbered, per Air Canada’s narrowbody numbering). Economy 3-3 rows 10-35: rows 10-34 full (25×6 = 150) + row 35 reduced to 3 (right triple D/E/F displaced by the rear galley/lavatory) = 153. Row 10 is the Economy bulkhead (extra legroom + bassinet); the two overwing exit rows are 16 (forward, non-reclining) and 17 (aft, full recline); row 15 sits directly ahead of the forward exit (limited recline); wing band rows 14-21. Overwing exit stations come from data/window-grids/737-max8.json (Boeing MAX ACAP, high confidence); actual row numbers, exit placement and rear-monument positions may differ from the physical aircraft. All pitch/width/recline are unpublished by Air Canada for this type and are flagged unsourced; windowAlignment is left ‘unknown’ for window seats because a derived grid cannot prove window-to-seat alignment.