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Air India Boeing 787-8 seat map

Boeing 787-8 (256 seats: 18 Business / 238 Economy)
256 seats18J/238YLast verified Jul 16, 2026
20 Business / 25 Premium Economy / 205 Economy (250 seats); Air India has published the products and counts but not a row-by-row map

Seat map

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Rating
GreatGoodStandardBe awareAvoid
Seat shape
SuiteLie-flatReclinerStandard
Flags & windows
Has a noteWindow mismatch flaggedNo window (structural blank)
Provenance
PUBLISHED MAPDERIVED LAYOUTMIXED SOURCES
Business ClassBusiness · 2-2-2Economy ClassEconomy · 3-3-3WC (both_sides) — Forward lavatories shown on the published drawing.🚻 WCGALLEY (center) — Forward service area shown ahead of Business Class.🍽 GALLEYWC (both_sides) — Forward lavatories shown on the published drawing.🚻 WCGALLEY (center) — Service and storage monuments shown between Business and Economy.🍽 GALLEYWC (both_sides) — Aft lavatories shown behind the last passenger row.🚻 WCGALLEY (center) — Aft service area shown behind row 39.GALLEYWC ♿ (center) — Aft wheelchair-accessible lavatory identified on the drawing.WC ♿WC (both_sides) — Aft lavatories shown behind the last passenger row.🚻 WC123111214151617181920212223242526272830313233343536373839ABDFHJABDFHJABDFHJABCGHJABCDEFGHJABCDEFGHJABCDEFGHJABCDEFGHJABCDEFGHJABCDEFGHJABCDEFGHJABCDEFGHJABCDEFGHJABCDEFGHJABCDEFGHJABCDEFGHJABCDEFGHJABCDEFGHJABCDEFGHJABCDEFGHJABCDEFGHJABCDEFGHJABCDEFGHJABCDEFGHJABCDEFGHJABCDEFGHJABCDEFGHJABCDEFGHJABCDEFGHJABDEFHJEXIT — Forward Door 1 pair shown on Air India's published drawing.EXITEXIT — Forward Door 1 pair shown on Air India's published drawing.EXITEXIT — Door 2 pair between Business and Economy.EXITEXIT — Door 2 pair between Business and Economy.EXITEXIT — Door 3 pair occupies the skipped row-29 monument zone between rows 28 and 30.EXITEXIT — Door 3 pair occupies the skipped row-29 monument zone between rows 28 and 30.EXITWC — Mid-cabin lavatories shown in the Door 3 monument complex.WCWC — Mid-cabin lavatories shown in the Door 3 monument complex.WCWC ♿ — Wheelchair-accessible lavatory identified on Air India's drawing.WC ♿GALLEY — Mid-cabin service monuments shown in the skipped row-29 zone.GALLEYCREW REST — Crew-rest area identified around the shaded aft side-seat area on the published drawing.CREW RESTCREW REST — Crew-rest area identified around the shaded aft side-seat area on the published drawing.CREW RESTEXIT — Aft Door 4 pair shown immediately behind the last passenger row.EXITEXIT — Aft Door 4 pair shown immediately behind the last passenger row.EXIT

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Worth knowing
  • 1A, 1J, 2A, 2J, 3A, 3J — Window-side Business seat does not have direct aisle access — step past the aisle-seat passenger.

Cabins

Business Class

18 seats · 2-2-2 · lie-flat
Seat
Lie-flat bed

Economy Class

238 seats · 3-3-3
Seat
Standard seat

Onboard facilities

Drawn on the interactive map above — hover a monument to confirm its position.

5 lavatories · 4 galleys · 1 crew rest · 4 door pairs

🚪 EXIT × 4🍽 GALLEY × 4🚻 WC × 3♿ WC ♿ × 2🛏 CREW REST × 1
Provenance

Sources

Every measurement and claim on this page traces back to one of these. Last verified Jul 16, 2026.

  • Air IndiaPRIMARY SOURCERetrieved Jul 16, 2026

    Official B787-8 drawing for the 18 Business / 238 Economy configuration: exact rows, seat letters, partial rows, zone totals, doors, galleys, lavatories, accessible lavatories, bassinets and crew-rest area.

    The original URL is retired; snapshot is the raw PDF from Wayback capture 20211201025850. The applicability label is historical, and the drawing does not establish window alignment or cabin dimensions.

    https://www.airindia.in/images/pdf/787-Time-Table-VT-ANA-THRU-ANX-Model.pdf ↗
  • Air IndiaPRIMARY SOURCERetrieved Jul 16, 2026

    Current 2026 Air India deployment of B787-8 aircraft with 18 Business Class flat beds and 238 Economy Class seats.

    Route release confirms the current accommodation and flat-bed product, not row positions; snapshot is the latest Wayback raw capture.

    https://www.airindia.com/in/en/newsroom/press-release/Air-India-to-resume-non-stop-flights-to-Rome-from-March-2026.html ↗
  • Air IndiaPRIMARY SOURCERetrieved Jul 16, 2026

    First completed B787-8 retrofit and its 20 Business / 25 Premium Economy / 205 Economy accommodation, layouts, dimensions, screens and named seat hardware.

    Air India publishes no row-by-row map or seat-number ranges for the 250-seat retrofit. Direct raw bytes timed out and no Wayback capture was available, so the snapshot is a rendered-text extract.

    https://www.airindia.com/in/en/newsroom/press-release/Air-India-welcomes-its-first-retrofitted-B787.html ↗
  • Air IndiaPRIMARY SOURCERetrieved Jul 16, 2026

    Official Northern Summer 2026 deployment notice schedules retrofitted B787-8 aircraft with new interiors on Mumbai-London Heathrow from 1 July 2026 and Bengaluru-London Heathrow from 1 August 2026.

    Confirms current commercial deployment of the retrofit generation but publishes no accommodation count or row map. Direct raw bytes timed out and no Wayback capture was available, so the snapshot is a rendered-text extract.

    https://www.airindia.com/in/en/newsroom/press-release/Air-India-upgrades-product-and-customer-experience-on-more-international-routes-this-summer.html ↗
  • Air IndiaPRIMARY SOURCERetrieved Jul 16, 2026

    Current official fleet landing page lists the B787-8, but unlike the B787-9 and A350 cards it provides no features or seat-map link for the type.

    Supports the current type listing and the absence of an airline-published current row map on the fleet page, not any accommodation count; snapshot is the latest Wayback raw capture.

    https://www.airindia.com/in/en/experience/airindia-fleet.html ↗
  • Air IndiaPRIMARY SOURCERetrieved Jul 16, 2026

    Official applicability-group drawing labeled 18 Business / 241 Economy / 259 total, used to identify the unresolved conflict between the numeric accommodation and drawn grid.

    The original URL is retired; snapshot is the raw PDF from Wayback capture 20211201035930. The numeric Zone D count does not reconcile with the seats drawn, so no 259-seat instance was generated.

    https://www.airindia.in/images/pdf/787-VT-ANY-ANZ-NAA-NAC-seating-configuration-for-booking-Model.pdf ↗
  • WikipediaINDEPENDENT SOURCERetrieved Jul 16, 2026

    Neutral current-fleet table lists Air India B787-8 entries for the 250-seat retrofit, 256-seat legacy cabin and 259-seat applicability group, and describes the ongoing retrofit transition.

    Neutral corroboration for variant discovery and transition status only. The table header is dated October 2025 even though later retrofit information has been added; airline sources control layout and product claims.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_India_fleet ↗
How this map was built

Air India's published 256-passenger drawing is internally consistent: Business rows 1-3 are 2-2-2 (18 seats); Economy Zone B is side-only row 11 plus full rows 12 and 14-20 (78 seats), Zone C is full rows 21-28 (72 seats), and Zone D is full rows 30-38 plus tapered row 39 with A/B, D/E/F and H/J (88 seats), totaling 238 Economy. Row 13 and row 29 are not used. A current Air India route release confirms that the 18J/238Y B787-8 remains deployed in 2026 while retrofit proceeds. The map's originally stated VT-ANA-through-VT-ANX applicability is historical and is not treated as a current complete registration list. The official 18J/241Y=259 applicability drawing is not instantiated because its numeric Zone D total conflicts with its drawn passenger grid; the new 20J/25W/205Y=250 retrofit is not instantiated because Air India has not published a row grid or seat-number ranges. Both remain BLOCKED pending a clarifying primary map. Exact window-to-seat alignment, pitch, width, recline and screen sizes are not established for this legacy cabin and are therefore omitted or left unknown.

What changed

  1. Jul 16, 2026Initial Air India B787-8 256-seat legacy configuration from the official published drawing; verified current operation and documented blocked 250- and 259-seat variants.