Virgin Atlantic Boeing 787-9 seat map
Seat map
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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.
- 1A, 1K — Front Upper Class suite beside the forward galley — possible service noise and light.
- 1G — Closest Upper Class suite to the forward centre galley and bassinet position — possible service activity or infant noise.
- 9G — Immediately ahead of The Bar social space — passengers and crew may gather nearby.
- 21A, 21C — Premium bulkhead row — no under-seat storage for take-off and landing.
Cabins
Upper Class
- Width
- 22"approx
- Seat
- Lie-flat bed
Virgin Atlantic publishes width as up to 22 in and recline as 17-42 degrees in seat mode, fully flat in bed mode; no pitch or bed length is published on the cited page.
Premium
- Pitch
- 38"approx
- Width
- 21"approx
- Seat
- Recliner
Virgin Atlantic publishes pitch as up to 38 in, width as up to 21 in, and recline as 8 in.
Economy
- Pitch
- 31–34"approx
- Width
- 17"approx
- Seat
- Standard seat, Extra-legroom seat
Virgin Atlantic publishes pitch as up to 31 in, width as up to 17 in, and recline as 5 in.
Onboard facilities
Drawn on the interactive map above — hover a monument to confirm its position.
5 lavatories · 6 galleys · 1 bar/self-service · 4 door pairs
Sources
Every measurement and claim on this page traces back to one of these. Last verified Jul 14, 2026.
- Virgin AtlanticPRIMARY SOURCERetrieved Jul 14, 2026
Live Boeing 787-9 fleet page: one current configuration with The Bar, 31 Upper Class, 35 Premium, 36 Economy Delight and 156 Economy seats; all 17 registrations; cabin pitch, width and recline specifications; embedded official seat-map image.
The page calls dimensions 'up to' and does not publish screen sizes, an airline-internal configuration code or per-seat window alignment.
https://www.virginatlantic.com/experience/meet-our-fleet/boeing-787 ↗ - Virgin AtlanticPRIMARY SOURCERetrieved Jul 14, 2026
Official Boeing 787-9 seat-map image: exact seat numbers and row geometry for Upper Class, Premium and Economy; Economy Delight, Preferred and Exit Row markings; The Bar, bassinets, exits, galleys, lavatories and closets.
Top-down schematic proves the published row layout and monuments but not real window-to-seat alignment, numeric pitch by row, recline restrictions or wing-row boundaries.
https://vaabrowse.virginatlantic.com/content/dam/HelpCentre/our-fleet/B787-9-01-Jan24-2.png ↗ - Virgin Atlantic CorporatePRIMARY SOURCERetrieved Jul 14, 2026
Press release dated 14 April 2026: daily London Heathrow-Seoul service launched 29 March 2026 on a Boeing 787-9 with 31 Upper Class, 35 Premium Economy and 192 Economy seats, confirming the configuration is actively flying.
Operational and cabin-count corroboration only; no row-by-row layout or dimensions.
https://corporate.virginatlantic.com/gb/en/media/press-releases/annyeong-seoul-virgin-atlantic-touches-down-in-south-korea.html ↗ - Virgin Atlantic CorporatePRIMARY SOURCERetrieved Jul 14, 2026
Press release dated 8 July 2025: the current 787-9 baseline is 31 Upper Class / 35 Premium / 192 Economy, while a new 44 Upper Class / 56 Premium / 127 Economy cabin will roll out from 2028 and complete by 2030.
The future 2028 retrofit is not currently flying and is intentionally not modeled as an active configuration.
https://corporate.virginatlantic.com/gb/en/media/press-releases/from-terminal-to-touchdown-virgin-atlantic-a-premium-experience.html ↗
Virgin Atlantic publishes one current Boeing 787-9 configuration and groups all 17 listed registrations under it: 31 Upper Class / 35 Premium / 36 Economy Delight / 156 Economy = 258. The count-based config.code is descriptive because no airline-internal code is published. The row grid is transcribed seat-by-seat from Virgin Atlantic's official B787-9 map (B787-9-01-Jan24-2.png). UPPER CLASS: herringbone 1-1-1 columns A/G/K, rows 1-9 full (27) plus A/K only in rows 10-11 (4) = 31; The Bar sits behind 9G between the two outboard final rows. PREMIUM: 2-3-2 A/C | D/F/G | H/K, full rows 21-25 = 35; the map marks all row-22 seats plus 23A/23C/23H/23K Preferred. ECONOMY: 3-3-3 A/B/C | D/F/G | H/J/K with centre-only row 45 (3), full rows 46-51 (54), centre-only row 52 (3), full rows 53-66 (126), and centre-only rows 67-68 (6) = 192. Economy Delight is exactly the outboard A/B/C and H/J/K blocks in rows 46-51 (6 rows x 6 = 36, canonical N); all other Economy seats are the published 156 standard Economy (Y). The map marks centre D/F/G in rows 46-52 and all seats in rows 54-56 Preferred, plus the six outboard seats at Door 3 row 53 as Exit Row. Bulkheads, bassinets, exits, galleys, lavatories, closets and The Bar are read from the map; no wing-row range is asserted. TRAVELER-FLAG DERIVATIONS: no-underseat-storage at the drawn bulkheads, extra legroom at the six map-highlighted Door 3 exit-row positions, and nearest-seat galley/lavatory adjacency are structural interpretations of the published schematic; exact exit-row pitch and any recline restriction are unpublished, so row 53 keeps the standard Economy seat type and no numeric dimension override. Preferred means the published map label only; paid_seat is not asserted because the cited page does not state a fee. WindowAlignment remains unknown on window positions and no_window_seat elsewhere because the schematic does not prove window-to-seat alignment and no 787-9 engineering grid exists. Published 'up to' pitch/width values are stored approximate and preserved verbatim in legroomNotes. The 2025 Virgin Atlantic premium-experience release announces a different 44 Upper Class / 56 Premium / 127 Economy layout rolling out only from 2028 through 2030; it is future, not currently flying, and is therefore excluded from this active-config file.
What changed
- Jul 14, 2026Initial Virgin Atlantic Boeing 787-9 258-seat config (31J/35W/36N/156Y), transcribed seat-by-seat from the official Virgin Atlantic map and verified as actively flying.