Shandong Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 seat map
Seat map
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- — Emergency-exit row provides additional legroom.
- — Paired premium window seat — reaching the aisle requires passing the neighboring seat.
- Exit rows: 14 and 15
- 12 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
- 1A, 1F, 2A, 2F — Paired premium window seat — reaching the aisle requires passing the neighboring seat.
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
Seats to avoid
- 1A, 1F, 2A, 2F — Paired premium window seat — reaching the aisle requires passing the neighboring seat.
Premium Economy
Ratings are even across this cabin — no standout or problem seats in our records.
Economy Class
Best seats
- 14A, 14B, 14C, 14D, 14E, 14F, 15A, 15B, 15C, 15D, 15E, 15F — Emergency-exit row provides additional legroom.
- Exit rows: 14 and 15
- 12 extra-legroom seats
Frequently asked questions
- How many seats does the Shandong Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 have?
- This configuration has 176 seats: 8 Business Class, 18 Premium Economy, 150 Economy Class.
- What are the best seats on the Shandong Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8?
- Top-rated in our data: 14A, 14B, 14C, 14D, 14E, 14F, 15A, 15B — Emergency-exit row provides additional legroom.
- Which seats should I avoid?
- Flagged in our data: 1A, 1F, 2A, 2F — Paired premium window seat — reaching the aisle requires passing the neighboring seat.
- Which rows are the exit rows?
- Rows 14 and 15 are exit rows.
- Does the Shandong Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 have lie-flat seats?
- No — this configuration has no lie-flat seats.
Cabins
Business Class
- Seat
- Recliner
Premium Economy
- Seat
- Standard seat
Economy Class
- Seat
- Standard seat
Onboard facilities
Drawn on the interactive map above — hover a monument to confirm its position.
2 lavatories · 2 galleys · 4 door pairs
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.
Sources
Every measurement and claim on this page traces back to one of these. Last verified Jul 18, 2026.
- Shandong AirlinesPRIMARY SOURCERetrieved Jul 18, 2026
Live Chinese aircraft-type page lists the Boeing 737-800 and B737-8 (7M8), and publishes 176 seats for the B737-8.
Chinese page translated into English. It publishes no 737-800 seat count, no per-cabin split for either type, and no seat map; it also still displays a 737-700 card without asserting current fleet status.
https://www.sda.cn/trip/airType.html ↗ - Planespotters.netINDEPENDENT SOURCERetrieved Jul 18, 2026
Current Shandong 737 MAX 8 production list contains 16 active aircraft, all configured C8Y168.
Direct HTTP retrieval returned 403, so the snapshot is a browser-rendered DOM text capture. Planespotters rolls Premium Economy into its Y count and does not publish row positions, dimensions, monuments, or window alignment.
https://www.planespotters.net/aircraft/search?dir=desc&fleet=Shandong-Airlines&fleetStatus=current&manufacturer=Boeing&sort=reg&subtype=737-MAX-8 ↗ - WikipediaINDEPENDENT SOURCERetrieved Jul 18, 2026
February 2026 German fleet table reports 117 passenger 737-800s and 13 737 MAX 8s, both at 176 seats with an 8 Business / 168 Economy-family split, and lists the 737-700 as former.
German page translated into English. Its MAX Economy-family total does not distinguish Premium Economy; the more current live production list controls aircraft counts, while the Chinese fleet table and Air China tier notice control the MAX W/Y split.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shandong_Airlines ↗ - WikipediaINDEPENDENT SOURCERetrieved Jul 18, 2026
December 2025 Chinese fleet table publishes the 737 MAX 8 split as 8 Business / 18 Premium Economy / 150 Economy and records the final 737-700 retirement on 25 October 2025.
Chinese page translated into English. Its 167-seat 737-800 row conflicts with the newer complete current production list and is treated as superseded; it is used only for the MAX cabin split and dated 737-700 retirement.
https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B1%B1%E4%B8%9C%E8%88%AA%E7%A9%BA ↗ - Air China PhoenixMilesPRIMARY SOURCERetrieved Jul 18, 2026
Air China Group's live mileage table distinguishes Shandong Airlines Business, Premium Economy and Economy as separate sold service levels.
Chinese page translated into English. It corroborates Shandong's cabin-tier names only; it does not tie the tiers to an aircraft type or publish seat counts, pitch, rows, or a map.
https://ffp.airchina.com.cn/app/notice/details?articleId=208 ↗
CURRENT CONFIG: Shandong's live aircraft page publishes 176 seats for the B737-8, and the complete live production list shows 16 active MAX 8s, all C8Y168. Planespotters aggregates Premium Economy into Y; the December 2025 Chinese fleet table supplies the exact 8 Business / 18 Premium Economy / 150 Economy split, while Air China Group's live Shandong table independently confirms Business, Premium Economy and Economy as sold service levels. DERIVATION: no Shandong seat map is published, so two 2-2 Business rows (8 seats), three contiguous 3-3 Premium Economy rows (18 seats), and twenty-five 3-3 Economy rows (150 seats) are reconstructed as display rows 1-2, 6-8 and 9-33. Those display numbers follow the recent same-market Shenzhen 737 convention; the cabin boundaries, wing rows 10-20, over-wing exits at rows 14-15, and all monuments are structural estimates from the exact 737 MAX 8 engineering grid rather than Shandong-published positions. Exact row numbering and the W/Y boundary may differ in service. The Business recliner category is a narrowbody-geometry inference. Window seats remain unknown and non-window positions no_window_seat; no pitch, width, numeric recline, hardware-model or amenity claim is made.
What changed
- Jul 18, 2026Initial Shandong Airlines configuration generated from archived airline and neutral current-fleet evidence.