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flydubai Boeing 737 MAX 9 seat map

Boeing 737 MAX 9 (172 seats, lie-flat Business)
172 seats16J/18N/138YLast verified Jul 18, 2026
Layout reconstructed from airline-published counts — exact seat geometry is approximate.

Seat map

Hover or tap any seat to see its rating and details.

Rating
GreatGoodStandardBe awareAvoid
Seat shape
SuiteLie-flatReclinerStandard
Flags & windows
Has a noteWindow mismatch flaggedNo window (structural blank)
Provenance
PUBLISHED MAPDERIVED LAYOUTMIXED SOURCES
Business ClassBusiness · 3-3Economy ClassEconomy · 3-312345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031ACDFBEACDFBEACDFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFEXIT (type_iii_overwing) — Placement follows flydubai's published identification of rows 15 and 16 as its exit/extra-legroom pair; no airline LOPA was available.EXITEXIT (type_iii_overwing) — Placement follows flydubai's published identification of rows 15 and 16 as its exit/extra-legroom pair; no airline LOPA was available.EXITEXIT (type_iii_overwing) — Placement follows flydubai's published identification of rows 15 and 16 as its exit/extra-legroom pair; no airline LOPA was available.EXITEXIT (type_iii_overwing) — Placement follows flydubai's published identification of rows 15 and 16 as its exit/extra-legroom pair; no airline LOPA was available.EXIT

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At a glance
172 seats
Rating mix
28Good132Standard12Be aware
Best seats
  • — Lie-flat Thompson Vantage Business seat beside the window.
Seats to avoid
  • — flydubai states that row 14 does not recline.
Worth knowing
  • Exit rows: 15 and 16
  • 18 extra-legroom seats

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How we rate seats →

Best & worst seats

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

Worth knowing

  • 14A, 14B, 14C, 14D, 14E, 14F — flydubai states that row 14 does not recline.

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.

Business Class

3-3Rows 1–516 seats

Best seats

  • 1A, 1F, 3A, 3F, 5A, 5F — Lie-flat Thompson Vantage Business seat beside the window.
  • 1C, 1D, 2B, 2E, 3C, 3D — Lie-flat Thompson Vantage Business seat with direct aisle access.

Economy Class

3-3Rows 6–31156 seats

Best seats

  • 6A, 6B, 6C, 6D, 6E, 6F — flydubai identifies row 6 as the front extra-legroom row on two-class aircraft.
  • 16A, 16B, 16C, 16D, 16E, 16F — flydubai identifies row 16 as extra-legroom seating.

Seats to avoid

  • 14A, 14B, 14C, 14D, 14E, 14F — flydubai states that row 14 does not recline.
  • 15A, 15B, 15C, 15D, 15E, 15F — flydubai identifies row 15 as extra-legroom seating.
Worth knowing
  • Exit rows: 15 and 16
  • 18 extra-legroom seats

Frequently asked questions

How many seats does the flydubai Boeing 737 MAX 9 have?
This configuration has 172 seats: 16 Business Class, 156 Economy Class.
What are the best seats on the flydubai Boeing 737 MAX 9?
Top-rated in our data: 1A, 1F, 3A, 3F, 5A, 5F — Lie-flat Thompson Vantage Business seat beside the window; 1C, 1D — Lie-flat Thompson Vantage Business seat with direct aisle access.
Which seats should I avoid?
Flagged in our data: 14A, 14B, 14C, 14D, 14E, 14F — flydubai states that row 14 does not recline; 15A, 15B — flydubai identifies row 15 as extra-legroom seating.
Which rows are the exit rows?
Rows 15 and 16 are exit rows.
Does the flydubai Boeing 737 MAX 9 have lie-flat seats?
Yes — Business Class has 16 seats that convert to a fully flat bed.

Cabins

Business Class

16 seats · 3-3 (staggered) · lie-flat
Thompson Aero Vantage
Width
19.8"published
Seat
Lie-flat bed
Screen
15.6"
Power
AC power outlet · USB-A

Economy Class

156 seats · 3-3
Recaro CL3710
Pitch
29.5"published
Width
17"published
Seat
Standard seat, Extra-legroom seat
Screen
13.3"
Power
USB-A

Onboard facilities

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

2 door pairs

🚪 EXIT × 2

Amenities

Entertainment
Seatback screens
flydubai's current retrofit products provide personal seatback screens in Business and Economy; screen sizes are recorded on the seat types.

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.

flydubai Boeing 737 MAX 9 seat map diagram — Business Class, Economy Class (172 seats)

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Provenance

Sources

Every measurement and claim on this page traces back to one of these. Last verified Jul 18, 2026.

  • flydubaiPRIMARY SOURCERetrieved Jul 18, 2026

    flydubai's current fleet page lists 26 Boeing 737-800s, 68 Boeing 737 MAX 8s and three Boeing 737 MAX 9s, and says its MAX fleet has reclining or fully-flat Business seats while retrofitted 737-800s have the flagship lie-flat Business product.

    The live page was bot-protected, so the stored object is a decoded Wayback raw capture dated 2026-02-17. It proves current type-level fleet membership and cabin-product families, not the row-by-row LOPA or subfleet count by configuration.

    https://www.flydubai.com/en/help/our-fleet ↗
  • flydubai NewsroomPRIMARY SOURCERetrieved Jul 18, 2026

    flydubai's Business Suite release identifies 31 MAX 8s with ten Thompson Vantage lie-flat seats, three MAX 9s with 16 Thompson Vantage lie-flat seats, and 12 MAX 8s with 12 HAECO Eclipse reclining Business seats; it also introduces a separate ten-suite Safran VUE product.

    The 2023 counts predate the current fleet snapshot and are used to identify product/configuration pairings, not as current configuration-level fleet counts. The release does not provide complete row grids or Economy counts.

    https://news.flydubai.com/flydubai-launches-a-premium-business-class-experience-the-business-suite ↗
  • flydubaiPRIMARY SOURCERetrieved Jul 18, 2026

    flydubai identifies rows 15 and 16 as extra-legroom rows, row 6 as the front extra-legroom row on two-class aircraft, row 15 as non-reclining, and row 14 as non-reclining; it markets front- and exit-row selection as paid options.

    The stored object is a decoded Wayback raw capture dated 2025-12-16. The page is fleet-wide rather than a variant-specific LOPA, so it supports only the named row attributes used here.

    https://www.flydubai.com/en/book-and-manage/add-extras/select-seat ↗
  • flydubaiPRIMARY SOURCERetrieved Jul 18, 2026

    flydubai's Business Class fact sheet publishes the Thompson Vantage alternating 2-2/1-1 geometry, 19.8-inch seated width, 21.3-inch bed width, 75-inch bed and 15.6-inch screen with AC and USB-A; the HAECO Eclipse 2-2 product has 21-inch width, a 15.6-inch screen and AC, USB-A and USB-C. It also specifies the Recaro CL3710 Economy seat's 3-3 layout, 29-30-inch pitch, 17-inch width, three-inch recline, 13.3-inch screen and USB-A.

    The fact sheet documents product geometry and dimensions, not aircraft-specific row positions. Its historical 45-inch Eclipse pitch is superseded here by flydubai's 2024 retrofit announcement of 53 inches on newer aircraft.

    https://cdn.uc.assets.prezly.com/060059de-c24c-4c62-8ef3-f83c13a52105/-/inline/no/flydubai-business-class-fact-sheeten.docx ↗
  • Wikipedia contributorsINDEPENDENT SOURCERetrieved Jul 18, 2026

    The flydubai fleet table lists current cabin totals of 10 Business plus 156 Economy and 189 all-Economy for the 737-800, 10 Business plus 156 Economy and 12 Business plus 162 Economy for the MAX 8, and 16 Business plus 156 Economy for the MAX 9.

    The table's type-level in-service counts lag flydubai's newer official 2025 results, so they are not used. This source is used only to reconcile published configuration totals; row positions are derived and explicitly marked.

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

DERIVED LAYOUT: flydubai and the neutral fleet table publish cabin totals and product geometry, but no accessible aircraft-specific LOPA; every cabin and row is therefore marked derived and the grid is reconstructed from those counts. COUNT RECONCILIATION: 16 Business + 156 Economy = 172; flydubai's named extra-legroom rows 6, 15 and 16 comprise 18 seats and are represented canonically as N within the published Economy total. ROW RULES: the generic current seat-selection page explicitly supplies rows 6, 14, 15 and 16. Other row positions follow the smallest count-reconciling grid with Economy beginning at flydubai's published row 6; no unreported lavatory, galley, bassinet or last-row recline restrictions are asserted. BUSINESS GEOMETRY: Thompson Vantage alternates published 2-2 paired rows and 1-1 solo rows. The schema uses a six-position 3-3 logical column grid to encode that staggered pattern; every short Business row is marked partial_row and every per-seat Vantage assignment is marked seatTypeInferred. WINDOWS: no exact 737 MAX 9 engineering grid exists in data/window-grids, so aircraft.windowGridType is intentionally omitted and window alignments remain unknown.

What changed

  1. Jul 18, 2026Initial Boeing 737 MAX 9 (172 seats, lie-flat Business) configuration generated from verified cabin counts and product geometry.