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China Southern Airlines Boeing 787-9 seat map

Boeing 787-9 (297 seats: 28 Business / 269 Economy)
297 seats28J/269YLast verified Jul 14, 2026
Layout reconstructed from airline-published counts — exact seat geometry is approximate.

Seat map

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Rating
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Seat shape
SuiteLie-flatReclinerStandard
Flags & windows
Has a noteWindow mismatch flaggedNo window (structural blank)
Provenance
PUBLISHED MAPDERIVED LAYOUTMIXED SOURCES
WINGBusiness ClassBusiness · 1-2-1Economy ClassEconomy · 3-3-3WC (both_sides) — Forward lavatories serving Business.🚻 WCGALLEY (full_width) — Forward galley/closets ahead of Business.🍽 GALLEYWC (both_sides) — Forward lavatories serving Business.🚻 WCWC (both_sides) · position derived🚻 WCGALLEY (full_width) — Galley/vestibule between Business and Economy. · position derived🍽 GALLEYWC (both_sides) · position derived🚻 WCWC (both_sides) · position derived🚻 WCGALLEY (full_width) — Aft galley. · position derived🍽 GALLEYWC (both_sides) · position derived🚻 WC1234567101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839ADGKADGKADGKADGKADGKADGKADGKABCDEFGHJABCDEFGHJABCDEFGHJABCDEFGHJABCDEFGHJABCDEFGHJABCDEFGHJABCDEFGHJABCDEFGHJABCDEFGHJABCDEFGHJABCDEFGHJABCDEFGHJABCDEFGHJABCDEFGHJABCDEFGHJABCDEFGHJABCDEFGHJABCDEFGHJABCDEFGHJABCDEFGHJABCDEFGHJABCDEFGHJABCDEFGHJABCDEFGHJABCDEFGHJABCDEFGHJABCDEFGHJABCDEFGHJABCDEFGHEXIT — Door 1 (forward).EXITEXIT — Door 1 (forward).EXITEXIT — Door 2 at the Economy bulkhead.EXITEXIT — Door 2 at the Economy bulkhead.EXITEXIT — Door 3 (over-wing exit row).EXITEXIT — Door 3 (over-wing exit row).EXITEXIT — Door 4 (aft).EXITEXIT — Door 4 (aft).EXIT

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Best & worst seats

Our rating engine's picks for this cabin layout — see any seat's full reasoning in the map above.

Pick these
  • 2A, 2D, 2G, 2K, 3A, 3D — Fully flat bed with direct aisle access.
Worth knowing
  • 19A, 19B, 19C, 19D, 19E, 19F — The seatback barely reclines because the over-wing exit row is directly behind.

Cabins

Business Class

28 seats · 1-2-1 (staggered) · lie-flat
Pitch
45"published
Width
21.5"published
Seat
Lie-flat bed
Screen
16"
Power
AC power outlet · USB-A

China Southern lists 45-inch pitch, seat width 20–23 in (staggered 1-2-1) and 180-degree fully-flat recline on its cabin-layout page.

Economy Class

269 seats · 3-3-3
Pitch
32"published
Width
16.5"published
Seat
Standard seat
Screen
12"
Power
AC power outlet · USB-A

China Southern lists 32-inch pitch, 16–17-inch width and 6-inch backrest recline for Economy.

Onboard facilities

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

3 lavatories · 3 galleys · 4 door pairs

🚪 EXIT × 4🍽 GALLEY × 3🚻 WC × 3

Amenities

Entertainment
Seatback screens
Personal seat-back TVs in every cabin: 16-inch Business, 12-inch Economy (China Southern cabin-layout page).
Power
AC power outlet · USB-A
AC power outlet and a USB port at every seat (China Southern cabin-layout page); the USB connector type is not specified by the airline.
Provenance

Sources

Every measurement and claim on this page traces back to one of these. Last verified Jul 14, 2026.

  • China Southern AirlinesPRIMARY SOURCERetrieved Jul 14, 2026

    Official B787-9(78C) cabin-layout page: 28 Business / 269 Economy = 297, with per-cabin pitch, width, recline, screen size and power for each cabin.

    Retrieved via the Wayback Machine snapshot dated 2024-06-15 (csair.com is bot-hostile to direct automated fetch). The page publishes per-cabin counts and dimensions; the seat map is a reference image only, so the row-by-row grid is derived.

    https://www.csair.com/en/tourguide/flight_service/cabin_layout/boyin/1cckugfqrrict.shtml ↗
  • WikipediaINDEPENDENT SOURCERetrieved Jul 14, 2026

    China Southern fleet table: 21 Boeing 787-9s in two configurations — 28J/28W/220Y=276 (78Z) and 28J/269Y=297 (78C), each cited to the csair.com cabin-layout pages.

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

Two-class (high-density) China Southern Boeing 787-9, fleet-tracking code 78C. PER-CABIN COUNTS AND DIMENSIONS ARE PUBLISHED/PRIMARY: China Southern's official cabin-layout page (csair.com, retrieved via the 2024-06-15 Wayback snapshot) lists 28 Business (45" pitch, 20–23" width, 180° lie-flat recline, 16" TV) / 269 Economy (32"/16–17"/6" recline/12" TV), both with AC power + USB, total 297 — NO Premium Economy cabin. The Wikipedia China Southern fleet table (neutral) corroborates a 28J/269Y=297 (78C) 787-9 config and cites the same csair.com page. THE ASSIGNMENT HINT (1 config ~28J/24W/245Y) IS SUPERSEDED: the airline publishes TWO distinct 787-9 configs — this two-class 78C 297-seater and a three-class 78Z 276-seater (cz-789-276). LAYOUT DERIVED_FROM_COUNTS: the csair map is a reference image only, so the row grid, door/exit positions, over-wing band and the tapered last Economy row are structural reconstructions from the published counts + abreast layouts; every cabin carries derived:true. DERIVATIONS: Business 1-2-1 rows 1-7 (7×4=28); Economy 3-3-3 rows 10-39 — bulkhead row 10, over-wing exit row 20, 29 full 9-abreast rows (261) plus a tapered last row 39 (drops the J window pair to 8 seats) to reach 269. Doors (1 fwd, 2 behind Business, 3 over-wing, 4 aft), galleys/lavatories and the wing band are derived. windowAlignment is left 'unknown' for window seats because the grid is derived (no 787 window grid exists, so windowGridType is omitted). China Southern operates 21 787-9s split between the 78Z and 78C configs; the per-config airframe count is not published.

What changed

  1. Jul 14, 2026Initial China Southern 787-9 78C two-class (28J/269Y = 297) config; counts + dimensions from csair.com cabin-layout page (Wayback), grid derived_from_counts.