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Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737-800 seat map — 168 seats

Boeing 737-800 (168 seats: 12 Cloud Nine / 156 Economy)
168 seats12J/156Y1 aircraft (as of Jul 17, 2026)Last verified Jul 17, 2026
Layout reconstructed from airline-published counts — exact seat geometry is approximate.

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
No window at seat 14A — Boeing routes the air-conditioning riser ducts up the left sidewall from the belly A/C packs to the ceiling distribution ducts, forward of the wing. The duct behind the sidewall panel displaces one left-side cabin window. Per Alaska fleet engineering this is standard on all 737 aircraft. (structural blank, confidence medium)NO WDWCloud NineBusiness · 2-2Economy ClassEconomy · 3-31231112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536ACJLACJLACJLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLEXIT (door) — Entry/service door anchor derived from 737-800 fuselage geometry; no 12J/156Y drawing was published.EXITEXIT (door) — Entry/service door anchor derived from 737-800 fuselage geometry; no 12J/156Y drawing was published.EXITEXIT (type_iii_overwing) — Overwing-exit schema anchor derived from 737-800 fuselage geometry and the related ET-APF row pattern; no 12J/156Y drawing was published.EXITEXIT (type_iii_overwing) — Overwing-exit schema anchor derived from 737-800 fuselage geometry and the related ET-APF row pattern; no 12J/156Y drawing was published.EXITEXIT (type_iii_overwing) — Overwing-exit schema anchor derived from 737-800 fuselage geometry and the related ET-APF row pattern; no 12J/156Y drawing was published.EXITEXIT (type_iii_overwing) — Overwing-exit schema anchor derived from 737-800 fuselage geometry and the related ET-APF row pattern; no 12J/156Y drawing was published.EXITEXIT (door) — Entry/service door anchor derived from 737-800 fuselage geometry; no 12J/156Y drawing was published.EXITEXIT (door) — Entry/service door anchor derived from 737-800 fuselage geometry; no 12J/156Y drawing was published.EXIT

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At a glance
168 seats
Rating mix
162Standard6Be aware
Seats to avoid
  • — Window-side Cloud Nine seat does not have direct aisle access — step past the aisle-seat passenger.
Worth knowing
  • Exit rows: 18

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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.

Worth knowing

  • 1A, 1L, 2A, 2L, 3A, 3L — Window-side Cloud Nine seat does not have direct aisle access — step past the aisle-seat passenger.

Seat guide

Cabin-by-cabin guidance generated from the verified layout records behind this map — which seats the ratings favor, which to think twice about, and the rows worth knowing about before you pick.

Cloud Nine

2-2Rows 1–312 seats

Seats to avoid

  • 1A, 1L, 2A, 2L, 3A, 3L — Window-side Cloud Nine seat does not have direct aisle access — step past the aisle-seat passenger.

Economy Class

3-3Rows 11–36156 seats
Worth knowing
  • Exit rows: 18

Frequently asked questions

How many seats does the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737-800 have?
This configuration has 168 seats: 12 Cloud Nine, 156 Economy Class.
What are the best seats on the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737-800?
No seat on this layout earns a standout rating — comfort is even across rows.
Which seats should I avoid?
Flagged in our data: 1A, 1L, 2A, 2L, 3A, 3L — Window-side Cloud Nine seat does not have direct aisle access — step past the aisle-seat passenger.
Which rows are the exit rows?
Row 18 is an exit row.
Does the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737-800 have lie-flat seats?
No — this configuration has no lie-flat seats.

Cabins

Cloud Nine

12 seats · 2-2
Seat
Recliner

Economy Class

156 seats · 3-3
Seat
Standard seat

Onboard facilities

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

4 door pairs

🚪 EXIT × 4

Seat map image

A printable snapshot of this exact layout — save it for boarding-day reference. The interactive map above stays the source of truth.

Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737-800 seat map diagram — Cloud Nine, Economy Class (168 seats)

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Provenance

Sources

Every measurement and claim on this page traces back to one of these. Last verified Jul 17, 2026.

  • Ethiopian AirlinesPRIMARY SOURCERetrieved Jul 17, 2026

    Current corporate fleet page lists 19 operating passenger 737-800s and 29 operating 737 MAX aircraft; it publishes the 737-800 accommodation split as 16C/138Y plus one 12C/156Y aircraft and the 737 MAX 8 accommodation as 16C/144Y.

    The page names only 18 passenger 737-800 tails and four MAX tails, fewer than its fleet totals, so those lists are visibly incomplete and are not treated as complete configuration assignments. The 18-aircraft 16C/138Y count is the arithmetic remainder after the page's explicit one-aircraft 12C/156Y statement.

    https://corporate.ethiopianairlines.com/AboutEthiopian/OurFleets ↗
  • Ethiopian AirlinesPRIMARY SOURCERetrieved Jul 17, 2026

    Current official seat-map catalog page for the related ET-APF 737-800 family establishes that Ethiopian uses 2-2 Cloud Nine and 3-3 Economy cabin products on this aircraft type; its navigation exposes no separate 12C/156Y family page.

    This page depicts the 16C/138Y ET-APF family, not the one-aircraft 12C/156Y configuration. It is used only for type-level cabin convention and to document the current catalog gap, never as a published row map for this file.

    https://www.ethiopianairlines.com/us/explore/fleet/seat-map/plane/b737-800-et-apf ↗
  • Ethiopian AirlinesPRIMARY SOURCERetrieved Jul 17, 2026

    Related official ET-APF 737-800 drawing establishes Ethiopian's A/C-J/L Cloud Nine and A/B/C-J/K/L Economy column convention for the type.

    The drawing is the 16C/138Y configuration, not the one-aircraft 12C/156Y layout. It does not evidence this file's row count, row numbers, exit row or monuments; all of those are explicitly derived from the published 12/156 counts and variant geometry.

    https://www.ethiopianairlines.com/images/globallibraries/default-album/seat-map/b737-800.jpg?sfvrsn=e3de1424_21 ↗
How this map was built

Ethiopian's current corporate fleet page explicitly publishes one 737-800 with 12C/156Y = 168 seats, but the current seat-map catalog exposes only the 16C/138Y ET-APF family and does not identify the 168-seat tail or publish its drawing. This file therefore stops at a count-constrained reconstruction: three full 2-2 Cloud Nine rows (3 x 4 = 12) and 26 full 3-3 Economy rows (26 x 6 = 156), using the related official ET-APF drawing only for Ethiopian's 737-800 column convention. Rows 1-3 and 11-36 are DERIVED; derived row 18 places the overwing exit area at the same eleventh physical passenger-row position as the related ET-APF drawing after accounting for one fewer Cloud Nine row. Cabins, rows and door anchors are marked derived. No bassinet, service-monument, dimension, limited-recline, window-alignment or seat-to-monument claim is transferred from APF to this undocumented layout.

What changed

  1. Jul 17, 2026Initial Ethiopian Airlines 168-seat 737-800 configuration generated as an explicitly count-derived reconstruction from the current official fleet accommodation statement.