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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
1,192
cabin configurations
223
airlines
244,996
individually rated seats
5,677
archived source citations
How to cite
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Citable records
Cabin-capacity superlatives from the corpus. “Densest” here means seat count — these compare recorded capacity, not pitch or width. The scan covers all 1,192 configurations. Frontier’s 243 enumerated grid positions conflict with its published 240-seat capacity, so that row remains disputed; click each aircraft for sources and caveats.
| 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 |
| Narrowbody grid maximum (capacity disputed) | 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 — 322 windowless window seats · CSV
- The Worst Seats Index — worst-rated seat count: 197 of 244,996 rated “avoid” · CSV
- The Legroom League Table — seat pitch across 494 configurations (1,115 cabins) · CSV
- The Bassinet Finder — 389 bassinet positions across 1,147 bassinet-adjacent seats, 161 configurations · CSV
- The Airline Economy Score — 221,566 rated economy seats across 223 airlines, 143 ranked · CSV
- Cabin-density records — the table above · CSV
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