On this page is a selection of links to web pages dealing with seating diagrams/charts, or other information regarding aspects of passenger seating.

Basic information on passenger seating   

View seating charts from ' Frequent Flyer '  web site:  
Select from a drop-down list of airlines.

British Airways Seating Plans

Boeing 757-200 Seating Chart

Cathay Pacific Seating Plans:

Boeing 747 - 400   (with new long-haul product)  » 747-400
Boeing 747 - 400   (Standard)  » 747-400
Boeing 777 - 300ER (with new long-haul product) » 777 - 300ER
Boeing 777 - 300   (Standard) » 777 - 300
Boeing 777 - 200 » 777 - 200
Airbus Industrie 340-300   (3 Class) » 340 - 300
Airbus Industrie 340-300   (2 Class) » 340 - 300
Airbus Industrie 340-300   (2 Class with new long-haul product) » 340 - 300
Airbus Industrie 330-300   (3 Class) » 330 - 300
Airbus Industrie 330-300   (2 Class) » 330 - 300
Airbus Industrie 330-300   (2 Class with new long-haul product) » 330 - 300

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Basic Information on passenger seating

The airline industry generally operates on low profit margins to remain competitive. Obviously, the number of fare-paying passengers able to be carried is highly significant - especially at a time when, on some airlines, the provision of in-flight catering (American Airlines 21/09/01 - source: Reuters) is being withdrawn in an effort to control costs.

Seating and passenger leg-room has to be balanced against the operating costs for any given route. Also, the various 'marketing' techniques employed by different airlines ("...we give you more leg-room than XXX airline") makes any attempt at reliably quantifying the space available for a given trip extremely difficult. Not least because the specifications could change with little or no notice.

Information on passenger seating in terms of 'leg room' is not abundant, but safelanding.com will continue to provide accredited links to figures gleaned from various sources on the www.
 
Watchdog, (in a report of 04-06-01- BBC Online) published the following table of economy seat pitch (legroom) and width list for the top ten international airlines*.

Another, quite comprehensive Airline Seating Guide is displayed on the Skytrax site. (Skytrax, a British company established in 1990, are leading specialist Quality Advisors to the airline industry.)  Passenger seat widths are not included in this table as the points at which airlines take their readings differ from Company to Company.
 

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