Cabin Classes

An aircraft’s cabin is divided into classes of travel, each with its own seats and service. The programs write a cabin front to back as each class’s letter and its seats: J12 Y138 is 12 business seats, then 138 economy.

F First

The most space a seat takes: about three economy seats’ floor area.

J Business

About two economy seats’ floor area.

W Premium economy

A wider seat with more legroom than economy.

Y Economy

The standard seat.

Cabin plans

Press C in the fleet or the market for a plan of the selected aircraft’s cabin, nose at the top. Each row shows its seat letters with its number in the aisle, and a line marks where each class starts. Doors are named by side and number from the front (L1, R1; UL1 on an upper deck), and overwing exits are marked EXIT beside the rows they open onto. Galleys, lavatories and closets stand across the cabin, and ◊ is a cabin crew seat.

Seats are lettered ABC DEF across a cabin with one aisle, and ABC DEFG HJK with two; there is no I. A wider seat takes the letters of the places it stands over, so a business row of four in a single-aisle cabin is AC DF.

The plan also gives the minimum cabin crew: one for every 50 passenger seats, or part of 50.

Sub-fleets

Aircraft of one type with the same cabin, such as V402 Y180, form a sub-fleet. Passengers can’t tell them apart, so daily services are scheduled on a sub-fleet, not one aircraft. See Which aircraft flies what.