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XiamenAir Boeing 737 MAX 8 seat map — 174 seats

Boeing 737 MAX 8 (174 seats: 8 Business / 166 Economy)
174 seats8J/166YLast verified Jul 17, 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 47A — 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 WDWBusiness ClassBusiness · 2-2Economy ClassEconomy · 3-3LAVATORY (left) · position derived🚻 LAVATORYGALLEY (right) · position derived🍽 GALLEYLAVATORY (both_sides) · position derived🚻 LAVATORYLAVATORY (both_sides) · position derivedLAVATORYGALLEY (right) · position derivedGALLEY111241424344454647484950515253545556575859606162636465666768ACJLACJLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLABCJKLACJLEXIT — Forward entry/service doors.EXITEXIT — Forward entry/service doors.EXITEXIT (type_iii_overwing) — Forward over-wing emergency exits.EXITEXIT (type_iii_overwing) — Forward over-wing emergency exits.EXITEXIT (type_iii_overwing) — Aft over-wing emergency exits.EXITEXIT (type_iii_overwing) — Aft over-wing emergency exits.EXITEXIT — Aft entry/service doors.EXITEXIT — Aft entry/service doors.EXIT

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At a glance
174 seats
Rating mix
26Good138Standard10Be aware
Best seats
  • — Wider Business Class recliner with substantially more pitch than Economy.
Seats to avoid
  • — Standard Economy seat in the published cabin layout.
Worth knowing
  • Exit rows: 51 and 52
  • 12 extra-legroom seats
  • 10 seats without under-seat storage

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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

  • 50A, 50B, 50C, 50J, 50K, 50L — Standard Economy seat in the published cabin layout.

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

2-2Rows 11–128 seats

Best seats

  • 11A, 11C, 11J, 11L, 12A, 12C, 12J, 12L — Wider Business Class recliner with substantially more pitch than Economy.
Worth knowing
  • 4 seats without under-seat storage

Economy Class

3-3Rows 41–68166 seats

Best seats

  • 41A, 41B, 41C, 41J, 41K, 41L, 51A, 51B, 51C, 51J, 51K, 51L — Standard Economy seat in the published cabin layout.

Seats to avoid

  • 50A, 50B, 50C, 50J, 50K, 50L, 68A, 68C, 68J, 68L — Standard Economy seat in the published cabin layout.
Worth knowing
  • Exit rows: 51 and 52
  • Rows next to a galley: 68
  • Rows next to a lavatory: 68
  • 12 extra-legroom seats
  • 6 seats without under-seat storage

Frequently asked questions

How many seats does the XiamenAir Boeing 737 MAX 8 have?
This configuration has 174 seats: 8 Business Class, 166 Economy Class.
What are the best seats on the XiamenAir Boeing 737 MAX 8?
Top-rated in our data: 11A, 11C, 11J, 11L, 12A, 12C, 12J, 12L — Wider Business Class recliner with substantially more pitch than Economy.
Which seats should I avoid?
Flagged in our data: 50A, 50B, 50C, 50J, 50K, 50L, 68A, 68C — Standard Economy seat in the published cabin layout.
Which rows are the exit rows?
Rows 51 and 52 are exit rows.
Does the XiamenAir Boeing 737 MAX 8 have lie-flat seats?
No — this configuration has no lie-flat seats.

Cabins

Business Class

8 seats · 2-2
Seat
Recliner

Economy Class

166 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

🚪 EXIT × 4🍽 GALLEY × 2🚻 WC × 2

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.

XiamenAir Boeing 737 MAX 8 seat map diagram — Business Class, Economy Class (174 seats)

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Provenance

Sources

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

  • WikipediaINDEPENDENT SOURCERetrieved Jul 17, 2026

    Current XiamenAir fleet table lists parent-airline cabin splits: 737-800 C8Y156/C8Y162/Y184; 737 MAX 8 C8Y166/Y184; 787-8 F4C18Y215; 787-9 C30Y257; A321neo C8Y200. Its 787-8 note describes both First and Business as 180-degree lie-flat products.

    Chinese-language page translated into English. Used only to establish which cabin-count variants are currently represented; official XiamenAir maps and product documents control layout and dimensions.

    https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BB%88%E9%96%80%E8%88%AA%E7%A9%BA ↗
  • XiamenAirPRIMARY SOURCERetrieved Jul 17, 2026

    Issuer-authored 2026 financing prospectus, pages 71-72: at 2025-03-31 the parent fleet included 118 737-800s, 22 737-8s, six 787-8s, six 787-9s, and 17 A321neos; Hebei Airlines and Jiangxi Air are listed separately.

    Chinese-language filing mirrored by Eastmoney; claim translated into English. Fleet counts are dated 2025-03-31 and establish in-service types and subsidiary separation, not the July 2026 per-configuration airframe split.

    https://pdf.dfcfw.com/pdf/H2_AN202604211821374948_1.pdf?t=1782819059053 ↗
  • XiamenAirPRIMARY SOURCERetrieved Jul 17, 2026

    Official Boeing 737 MAX seating chart publishing the 184-seat all-Economy layout at 30-inch pitch, rows 41-71 with a four-seat row 55 between the over-wing exits.

    Recovered as raw bytes from the Wayback Machine timestamp 20230407212856 because XiamenAir's current CMS entry is empty. This image does not cover the later two-class 174-seat configuration.

    https://www.xiamenair.com/cms-i18n-ow/upload/images/2023/2/83574eb1e28dedff.jpg ↗
How this map was built

CURRENT CONFIGURATION COUNTS ARE VERIFIED, BUT NO AIRLINE ROW MAP WAS FOUND. The current Chinese Wikipedia fleet table lists a distinct C8Y166=174 MAX 8 subfleet alongside Y184, and the issuer filing confirms parent-airline 737-8 operation. The grid is therefore explicitly derived: 2-2 Business rows 11-12 (8), 27 full 3-3 Economy rows 41-67 (162), plus a conservative four-seat tapered row 68 (A/C/J/L) to reach 166. Over-wing exit rows 51-52 and all furniture are structural placements derived from the shared 737-max8 grid and the published XiamenAir narrowbody numbering pattern, not a claim that XiamenAir publishes these exact row positions. Every cabin and row is marked derived; window seats remain unknown pending aircraft-specific evidence.

What changed

  1. Jul 17, 2026Initial XiamenAir 737 MAX 8 8J/166Y (174 seats) configuration.