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Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 seat map

Boeing 737 MAX 8 (160 seats: 16 Cloud Nine / 144 Economy)
160 seats16J/144Y29 aircraft (as of Jul 17, 2026)Last verified Jul 17, 2026

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 13A — 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 · 3-3LAVATORY (left) — Forward-left lavatory shown on the airline drawing.LAVATORYCREW (left) — Forward attendant-seat symbol shown on the airline drawing.CREWGALLEY (both_sides) — Additional cabin-side forward galley monuments shown on both sides of the MAX drawing.GALLEYGALLEY (right) — Forward-right service monument shown on the airline drawing.GALLEYGALLEY (both_sides) — Additional cabin-side forward galley monuments shown on both sides of the MAX drawing.GALLEYLAVATORY (left) — Aft-left lavatory shown on the airline drawing.LAVATORYCREW (both_sides) — Aft attendant-seat symbols shown on the airline drawing.CREWGALLEY (center) — Aft service monument shown on the airline drawing.🍽 GALLEYLAVATORY (right) — Aft-right lavatory shown on the airline drawing.LAVATORYCREW (both_sides) — Aft attendant-seat symbols shown on the airline drawing.CREW1234111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334ACJLACJLACJLACJLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLEXIT (door) — Forward entry/service door pair shown on the airline drawing.EXITEXIT (door) — Forward entry/service door pair shown on the airline drawing.EXITEXIT (type_iii_overwing) — Forward overwing-exit pair; the schema anchor is reconciled to the published exit-row area and the variant-exact engineering grid.EXITEXIT (type_iii_overwing) — Forward overwing-exit pair; the schema anchor is reconciled to the published exit-row area and the variant-exact engineering grid.EXITEXIT (type_iii_overwing) — Aft overwing-exit pair; the schema anchor is reconciled to the published exit-row area and the variant-exact engineering grid.EXITEXIT (type_iii_overwing) — Aft overwing-exit pair; the schema anchor is reconciled to the published exit-row area and the variant-exact engineering grid.EXITEXIT (door) — Aft entry/service door pair shown on the airline drawing.EXITEXIT (door) — Aft entry/service door pair shown on the airline drawing.EXIT

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At a glance
160 seats
Rating mix
152Standard8Be 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: 17
  • Bassinet rows: 1 and 11

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Best & worst seats

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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 1–416 seats

Seats to avoid

  • 1A, 1L, 2A, 2L, 3A, 3L, 4A, 4L — Window-side Cloud Nine seat does not have direct aisle access — step past the aisle-seat passenger.
Worth knowing
  • Bassinet rows: 1

Economy Class

3-3Rows 11–34144 seats
Worth knowing
  • Exit rows: 17
  • Bassinet rows: 11

Frequently asked questions

How many seats does the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 have?
This configuration has 160 seats: 16 Cloud Nine, 144 Economy Class.
What are the best seats on the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8?
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, 4A, 4L — Window-side Cloud Nine seat does not have direct aisle access — step past the aisle-seat passenger.
Which rows are the exit rows?
Row 17 is an exit row.
Which rows have bassinet positions?
Bassinet positions serve rows 1 and 11.
Does the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 have lie-flat seats?
No — this configuration has no lie-flat seats.

Cabins

Cloud Nine

16 seats · 2-2
Seat
Recliner

In this cabin: Entertainment: seatback

Economy Class

144 seats · 3-3
Seat
Standard seat

In this cabin: Entertainment: streaming

Onboard facilities

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

3 lavatories · 3 galleys · 4 door pairs

🚪 EXIT × 4🚻 WC × 3🍽 GALLEY × 3💺 CREW × 2

Amenities

Entertainment
Mixed (varies by cabin)
The ET-AVM page states that video is seatback in Cloud Nine and delivered to personal devices in Economy.
Power
Available
The ET-AVM page states that personal power outlets are fitted but does not publish outlet types or cabin coverage.

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 MAX 8 seat map diagram — Cloud Nine, Economy Class (160 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 ET-AVM-family page publishes 16 Cloud Nine and 144 Economy seats, states that Cloud Nine has seatback video while Economy uses personal-device video, states that personal power outlets are fitted, and links the official drawing.

    https://www.ethiopianairlines.com/us/explore/fleet/seat-map/plane/b737max-8-et-avm ↗
  • Ethiopian AirlinesPRIMARY SOURCERetrieved Jul 17, 2026

    Official ET-AVM-family drawing visibly prints four 2-2 Cloud Nine rows 1-4 and 24 full 3-3 Economy rows 11-34, with A/C-J/L and A/B/C-J/K/L column keys, bassinet symbols, cabin divider, exits and service monuments.

    The raster is only 425x842 and is not dimensionally scaled. Its row labels and block geometry are legible when enlarged, but it does not establish seat dimensions or exact window alignment; individual limited-recline highlighting is not clear enough to encode.

    https://www.ethiopianairlines.com/images/globallibraries/default-album/seat-map/b737-max.jpg?sfvrsn=b2bc57f4_13 ↗
How this map was built

Ethiopian's current ET-AVM family page, corporate fleet table and linked drawing agree on 16 Cloud Nine / 144 Economy = 160 seats. The narrowbody raster visibly prints rows 1-4 and 11-34 plus the cabin column keys, so the passenger row grid is treated as PUBLISHED rather than derived: 4 x 4 Cloud Nine and 24 x 6 Economy. The current catalog exposes only this ET-AVM MAX family drawing; no second same-count MAX 8 geometry was found. The corporate fleet total is 29 MAX aircraft while its configuration section names only four tails, so only ET-AVM is retained as the representative registration and the short list is not treated as complete. Bassinet adjacency is encoded only where the drawing prints bassinet symbols. Exact window alignment, dimensions, limited-recline seats and seat-to-monument drawback ratings are not established and remain unknown or unflagged. The two overwing-exit schema anchors are reconciled around published row 17 using the variant-exact engineering grid.

What changed

  1. Jul 17, 2026Initial Ethiopian Airlines 160-seat 737 MAX 8 ET-AVM-family configuration generated from current official fleet, landing-page and drawing sources.