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Virgin Australia Boeing 737-800 seat map

737-800 (176 seats: 8 Business / 168 Economy)
176 seats8J/30N/138YLast verified Jul 17, 2026
This cabin is being replaced by the 737-800 (182 seats: 8 Business / 174 Economy, reconfigured) configuration →

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Rating
GreatGoodStandardBe awareAvoid
Seat shape
SuiteLie-flatReclinerStandard
Flags & windows
Has a noteWindow mismatch flaggedNo window (structural blank)
No window at seat 9A — 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 WDWZone: Economy X (premium)ECONOMY XZone: Preferred seating (preferred)PREFERRED SEATINGBusinessBusiness · 2-2EconomyEconomy · 3-3WC (left) — Forward lavatory shown on the published Virgin Australia map.🚻 WCGALLEY (right) — Forward galley shown on the published Virgin Australia map.🍽 GALLEYWC (left) — Left rear lavatory shown on the published map.🚻 WCGALLEY (full_width) — Rear galley shown aft of the lavatories on the published map.🍽 GALLEYWC (right) — Right rear lavatory shown on the published map.🚻 WC123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930ACDFACDFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFEXIT (door) — Forward entry and service doors.EXITEXIT (door) — Forward entry and service doors.EXITEXIT (type_iii_overwing) — Over-wing emergency exits shown on the published map.EXITEXIT (type_iii_overwing) — Over-wing emergency exits shown on the published map.EXITEXIT (type_iii_overwing) — Over-wing emergency exits shown on the published map.EXITEXIT (type_iii_overwing) — Over-wing emergency exits shown on the published map.EXITEXIT (door) — Aft entry and service doors.EXITEXIT (door) — Aft entry and service doors.EXIT

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Worth knowing
  • 12A, 12B, 12C, 12D, 12E, 12FSeat immediately ahead of the over-wing exit area; recline may be limited.

Cabins

Business

8 seats · 2-2
Pitch
38"published
Seat
Recliner

Virgin Australia publishes 38 in (96.5 cm) pitch for 737 Business Class.

Economy

168 seats · 3-3
Pitch
36.5"published
Seat
Standard seat, Extra-legroom seat

Virgin Australia publishes a 34-39 in pitch range for Economy X.

Economy XPreferred seating

Onboard facilities

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

3 lavatories · 2 galleys · 4 door pairs

🚻 WC × 3🍽 GALLEY × 2🚪 EXIT × 4
Provenance

Sources

Every measurement and claim on this page traces back to one of these. Last verified Jul 17, 2026.

How this map was built

CURRENT SCOPE: Virgin Australia's fleet page dated 24 June 2026 still lists a 176-seat 737-800 alongside the 182-seat target. The interim report identifies 182 seats as the standardisation target, so this live legacy layout is retrofit_source linked to va-738-182. The earlier 170-seat 737-800 capacity published in the 2025 prospectus is absent from the current fleet page and is not modelled. PUBLISHED: the official Virgin Australia map supplies every displayed row, seat, cabin boundary, Economy X/Preferred zone, exit, lavatory and galley position. Business has 38 in pitch; Economy X has 34-39 in pitch; Preferred seating has no extra legroom. MODELLING: Economy X remains a zone within the physical Economy cabin but resolves to extra_legroom_economy for the computed cabinSummary. Ratings and the limited-recline cautions for the row immediately ahead of the over-wing exits and the last row are structural inferences, not airline-published seat warnings. Bulkhead storage/tray flags are likewise inferred from the published monument geometry. No unpublished ordinary-Economy pitch, width, or recline number is encoded. WINDOW ALIGNMENT: the exact variant grid is bound; scripts/window-alignment.js is run after generation and only tool-applied high-confidence structural blanks are accepted, while all other window positions remain unknown.

What changed

  1. Jul 17, 2026Initial Virgin Australia 737-800 176-seat configuration from current official fleet and seat-map sources.