Air China Boeing 747-8 seat map

Air China Boeing 747-8i in its single current passenger layout (12 First / 54 Business / 66 Premium Economy / 233 Economy = 365), the only 747-8 configuration in Air China’s fleet table. Cabin counts and the row-range header are read directly from Air China’s official 747-8 cabin diagram (B748_8_EN.jpg) and match the airchina.us count and the Wikipedia fleet table. LAYOUT read from the official diagram: First (Forbidden Pavilion, red) rows 1-3 in the nose, 1-2-1 (A/D-H/L); Business (Capital Pavilion, blue) in two cabins — a main-deck mini-cabin in the nose (rows 11-13 staggered 2-2, rows 14-15 2-2-2 where the fuselage widens) and the upper deck (rows 80-87, staggered 2-2); Premium Economy (light green) rows 31-37 over the wing, 3-4-3; Economy (teal) rows 38-64, 3-4-3 tapering at the tail. Spatial order on the main deck front-to-back is Business(11-15) → First(1-3) → Premium Economy(31-37) → Economy(38-64); the higher-numbered Business rows sit physically ahead of the lower-numbered First rows, per the diagram. RECONCILIATIONS (layoutProvenance "mixed", AUTHORING §5b — published counts govern): (1) Upper-deck Business is a staggered 2-2 whose two sides are offset — the window (J/L) side is drawn with 8 bays (rows 80-87) and the A/C side with 7 (rows 80-86), giving 30 seats; row 87 is modeled J/L-only. (2) Premium Economy: the diagram shows a full 3-4-3 with the forward centre block starting one row aft of the window blocks (galley/monument ahead), so row 31 is 6 seats (A,B,C,J,K,L) and rows 32-37 are full 3-4-3 — total 66. (3) Economy totals the published 233: the diagram shows 3-4-3 with the centre section starting one row aft at the class divider (row 38 = 6 seats) and again aft of the Door 3 galley (row 48 = 6 seats), a full-width Door 3 galley bank at row 47 (no seats), a 2-4-2 tail taper (rows 60-62) and a centre-only tail (row 63 = 4 seats, row 64 narrowing to 3 as the cone closes). Exact within-Economy galley-gap and taper row boundaries are DERIVED to reconcile to the published 233 (economy cabin marked derived) — the diagram is a top-down schematic labeled "The actual layout is subject to flight." No numeric pitch/width/screen sizes are printed on Air China’s pages; all seat-type dimensions and screen sizes are unsourced estimates. windowAlignment is left "unknown" for window seats (a top-down schematic does not prove window-to-seat alignment). Business seat hardware (Collins Parallel Diamond) and the Forbidden/Capital Pavilion product names are from the Wikipedia fleet article (neutral). Fleet: 7 x 747-8i in service (Jan 2026); B-2479 and B-2481 are used for VIP transport, so ~5 fly the standard 365-seat passenger layout.