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Shandong Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 seat map

737 MAX 8 (176 seats: 8 Business / 18 Premium Economy / 150 Economy)
176 seats8J/18W/150Y16 aircraft (as of Jul 18, 2026)Last verified Jul 18, 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 10A — 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 WDWWINGBusiness ClassBusiness · 2-2Premium EconomyPremium Economy · 3-3Economy ClassEconomy · 3-3WC (left) — Forward-lavatory side is a structural reconstruction, not a Shandong-published map position. · position derived🚻 WCGALLEY (right) — Forward-galley side is a structural reconstruction, not a Shandong-published map position. · position derived🍽 GALLEYWC (both_sides) — Aft-lavatory area is reconstructed from conventional 737 geometry. · position derived🚻 WCGALLEY (full_width) — Aft-galley area is reconstructed from conventional 737 geometry. · position derived🍽 GALLEYWC (both_sides) — Aft-lavatory area is reconstructed from conventional 737 geometry. · position derived🚻 WC126789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233ACDFACDFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFEXIT (door) — Forward entry/service doors; row anchor is derived.EXITEXIT (door) — Forward entry/service doors; row anchor is derived.EXITEXIT (type_iii_overwing) — Forward over-wing exit pair; display-row anchor is derived.EXITEXIT (type_iii_overwing) — Forward over-wing exit pair; display-row anchor is derived.EXITEXIT (type_iii_overwing) — Aft over-wing exit pair; display-row anchor is derived.EXITEXIT (type_iii_overwing) — Aft over-wing exit pair; display-row anchor is derived.EXITEXIT (door) — Aft entry/service doors; row anchor is derived.EXITEXIT (door) — Aft entry/service doors; row anchor is derived.EXIT

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Worth knowing
  • 1A, 1F, 2A, 2F — Paired premium window seat — reaching the aisle requires passing the neighboring seat.

Cabins

Business Class

8 seats · 2-2
Seat
Recliner

Premium Economy

18 seats · 3-3
Seat
Standard seat

Economy Class

150 seats · 3-3
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

🍽 GALLEY × 2🚻 WC × 2🚪 EXIT × 4
Provenance

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 ↗
How this map was built

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

  1. Jul 18, 2026Initial Shandong Airlines configuration generated from archived airline and neutral current-fleet evidence.