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SeatRecon is an independent, fully sourced airline seat-map database. Journalists and researchers are welcome to use our figures and images. This page has the numbers, the records, and how to cite them.
By the numbers
1,100
cabin configurations
220
airlines
235,170
individually rated seats
4,403
archived source citations
How to cite
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Citable records
Cabin-capacity superlatives from the corpus. “Densest” here means seat count — these are capacity records, not pitch or width. Every figure is verified against all 1,100 configurations before it is published; click any aircraft for the sourced seat map.
| Record | Airline | Aircraft | Seats |
|---|---|---|---|
| Most seats on any aircraft | Emirates | Airbus A380-800 | 615 |
| Most seats on a single-deck jet | Air France | Boeing 777-300ER | 472 |
| Most seats on an all-economy widebody | Cebu Pacific | Airbus A330-900 | 459 |
| Densest A330-300 (all-economy) | US-Bangla Airlines | Airbus A330-300 | 436 |
| Most seats on a narrowbody | Frontier Airlines | Airbus A321neo | 243 |
| Most seats on any 737 | Thai Lion Air | Boeing 737-900ER | 220 |
| Densest 737 MAX 8-200 | Ryanair | Boeing 737 MAX 8-200 | 197 |
| Densest regional jet (E195-E2) | Airlink | Embraer E195-E2 | 136 |
| Densest turboprop (Q400) | SpiceJet | De Havilland Q400 | 90 |
More records and the methodology behind them: Most Seats on a Plane.
Datasets
- Windowless Window Seat Index — 289 windowless window seats · CSV
- The Worst Seats Index — worst-rated seat count: 225 of 235,170 rated “avoid” · CSV
- The Legroom League Table — seat pitch across 609 configurations (1,418 cabins) · CSV
- The Bassinet Finder — 376 bassinet positions across 1,344 bassinet-adjacent seats, 193 configurations · CSV
- The Airline Economy Score — 212,199 rated economy seats across 220 airlines, 142 ranked · CSV
- Cabin-density records — the table above · CSV
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