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United Airlines Boeing 737-800 seat map — 166 seats

737-800 (166 seats: 16 United First / 48 Economy Plus / 102 Economy)
166 seats16F/48N/102YLast verified Jul 14, 2026

Seat map

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Rating
GreatGoodStandardBe awareAvoid
Seat shape
SuiteLie-flatReclinerStandard
Flags & windows
Has a noteWindow mismatch flaggedNo window (structural blank)
Zone: Economy Plus (preferred)Zone: Economy Plus (preferred)Economy PlusECONOMY PLUSUnited FirstUnited FirstFirst · 2-2United EconomyUnited EconomyEconomy · 3-31234781011121415202122232425262728293031323435363738ABEFABEFABEFABEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFEXITEXITEXITEXITEXITEXITEXITEXITEXITEXITEXITEXIT

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At a glance
166 seats
Rating mix
144Standard22Be aware
Seats to avoid
  • — United publishes limited or zero recline for this seat.
  • — United publishes zero recline for this seat.
Worth knowing
  • Exit rows: 20 and 21
  • 48 extra-legroom seats

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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

  • 4A, 4B, 4E, 4F — United publishes limited or zero recline for this seat.
  • 15A, 15B — United publishes zero recline for this 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.

United First

2-2Rows 1–416 seats

Seats to avoid

  • 4A, 4B, 4E, 4F — United publishes limited or zero recline for this seat.

United Economy

3-3Rows 7–38150 seats

Seats to avoid

  • 15A, 15B, 15C, 15D, 15E, 15F, 20A, 20B, 20C, 20D, 20E, 20F — United publishes zero recline for this seat.
Worth knowing
  • Exit rows: 20 and 21
  • 48 extra-legroom seats

Frequently asked questions

How many seats does the United Airlines Boeing 737-800 have?
This configuration has 166 seats: 16 United First, 150 United Economy.
What are the best seats on the United Airlines Boeing 737-800?
No standout seat is established by the available evidence for this layout. Unresolved comfort details remain unverified.
Which seats should I avoid?
Flagged in our data: 4A, 4B, 4E, 4F — United publishes limited or zero recline for this seat; 15A, 15B, 15C, 15D — United publishes zero recline for this seat.
Which rows are the exit rows?
Rows 20 and 21 are exit rows.
Does the United Airlines Boeing 737-800 have lie-flat seats?
No — this configuration has no lie-flat seats.

Cabins

United First

16 seats · 2-2
Pitch
37"published
Width
20.5"published
Seat
Recliner

United's current aircraft specifications, version 1, publish these standard dimensions in inches. Seat-specific exceptions and limited-recline seats are separate; actual dimensions may vary. This audit did not independently verify the legacy seat hardware, amenity descriptions or per-tail retrofit status.

United Economy

150 seats · 3-3
Pitch
30–34"published
Width
16.8"published
Seat
Standard seat, Extra-legroom seat

United's current aircraft specifications, version 1, publish these standard dimensions in inches. Seat-specific exceptions and limited-recline seats are separate; actual dimensions may vary. This audit did not independently verify the legacy seat hardware, amenity descriptions or per-tail retrofit status.

Economy Plus

Onboard facilities

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

2 door pairs

🚪 EXIT × 2

Amenities

Wi-Fi
Available
The matching aircraft page publishes Wi-Fi availability. Pricing, provider and current per-tail rollout status are not established by this snapshot.
Entertainment
Seatback screens
Matching published version: United First®: Seatback entertainment, DIRECTV® and personal device entertainment; United Economy Plus®: Seatback entertainment, DIRECTV® and personal device entertainment; United Economy®: Seatback entertainment, DIRECTV® and personal device entertainment. Vendor, screen sizes and per-tail retrofit status are not established by this table; explicitly unsourced screen estimates remain estimates.
Power
Available
Published matching-version outlet availability: United First®: Yes; United Economy Plus®: Yes; United Economy®: No. Published USB availability: United First®: No; United Economy Plus®: No; United Economy®: No. USB connector type is not specified; no USB-A/USB-C subtype is certified. The map additionally marks powered row 15, conflicting with the Economy No table cell; this exception is documented, not generalized to rear Economy. Generic outlet availability does not certify AC or another connector subtype. Omitted structured connector fields indicate uncertainty, not no power. Historical AC releases are contextual and do not certify the current numbered version or every cabin.
Food & drink
United First: complimentary meals on longer flights. Economy Plus / Economy: complimentary snacks and non-alcoholic drinks; buy-on-board and premium snacks on many routes.

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.

United Airlines Boeing 737-800 seat map diagram — United First, United Economy (166 seats)

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Provenance

Sources

Every measurement and claim on this page traces back to one of these. Last verified Jul 14, 2026.

  • SEC EDGAR — United Airlines Holdings, Inc. FY2025 Form 10-KPRIMARY SOURCERetrieved Jul 14, 2026

    Mainline fleet table: Boeing 737-800 — 141 aircraft (130 owned, 11 leased), 166 seats each, as of 2025-12-31.

    Gives total seats and fleet count only; no per-cabin split or row positions.

    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/100517/000010051726000023/ual-20251231.htm ↗
  • United Airlines NewsroomPRIMARY SOURCERetrieved Jul 14, 2026

    Economy Plus is United's branded extra-legroom economy product, available on most of the airline's mainline aircraft.

    Confirms the product and its fleet-wide availability; does not state 737-800 pitch or per-cabin counts.

    https://united.mediaroom.com/news-releases?item=123943 ↗
  • WikipediaINDEPENDENT SOURCERetrieved Jul 14, 2026

    Neutral fleet table reports141737-800 aircraft across published166-seat splits16First/48Plus/102Economy,16/42/108 and16/54/96. It does not allocate141 aircraft to version1.

    Community-maintained; used for the per-cabin split, which reconciles with the SEC 166 total.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_fleet ↗
  • United AirlinesPRIMARY SOURCERetrieved Sep 30, 2026

    Aircraft-version product counts and published standard seat pitch, width and recline. Standard dimensions may vary by seat. Original map is separately archived.

    Tables can contain inconsistent ranges/counts; image-based reconciliation is explained in configuration notes. Does not verify every legacy amenity, retrofit claim, fleet count or tail assignment.

    https://www.united.com/en/us/fly/company/aircraft/boeing-737-800.html ↗
  • United AirlinesPRIMARY SOURCERetrieved Sep 30, 2026

    Airline-published map image: seat labels, skipped rows, seat columns, product coloring and monument/exit positions.

    Schematic map does not establish physical window alignment or every hardware/amenity feature.

    https://media.united.com/assets/m/2e41eddf5126cca/original/737_800-V1_Seatmap.png ↗
  • United AirlinesPRIMARY SOURCERetrieved Sep 30, 2026

    Complete rendered official aircraft page: every table cell, heading, explanatory main text and visible footnote retained for reprocessing and exact claim comparison.

    Rendered DOM extraction, not raw HTTP HTML. Static page does not establish per-tail operations; table/image conflicts and limited audit scope remain in config notes.

    https://www.united.com/en/us/fly/company/aircraft/boeing-737-800.html ↗
How this map was built

2026-09-30: Seat labels, numbering gaps, column letters and Economy Plus assignment transcribed from United's archived official map image; standard dimensions from the matching aircraft page. Economy Plus is a zone within a shared economy cabin. Source table/image conflicts are recorded in the UA audit. Window alignment is unknown. Only published limited-recline exceptions are flagged; ratings default to standard. The schematic furniture inventory is intentionally incomplete, so unverified adjacency/bassinet/window flags from the prior inferred grid were removed. Current per-tail fleet counts, hardware, connectivity rollouts and all legacy amenity descriptions remain outside the verified claims.

What changed

  1. Oct 1, 2026Independent United source triage: version-bound power/USB/IFE, zero recline, exact staggered MAX8 labels and published exceptions, source-date/product wording qualification. Legacy inferred hardware, furniture and window uncertainty remain explicit. Qualify United outlet connector claims: generic availability remains prose, unsupported AC enum omitted, explicit wireless/StudioUSB-C preserved. No map, numbering, totals, coordinates or source archives changed.
  2. Sep 30, 2026Primary-source audit: updated published standard dimensions; reconstructed grid only where explicit archived airline image reconciliation is implemented. Remaining unverified scope documented in notes.
  3. Jul 14, 2026Initial United 737-800 config (166 seats: 16F United First / 48N Economy Plus / 102Y Economy). Layout derived from SEC 10-K total + Wikipedia cabin split; united.com bot-blocked. Sources archived under data/sources/objects/.