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Vintage Airline Seat Map: Air France 3-Class Airbus A300

It’s time for another Vintage Airline Seat Map and I’ve selected a three-class Air France Airbus A300 seen flying the skies in the late 1980s. A couple of interesting things to note below are the white seats behind row four, and those in the middle section of row 40. I’m assuming they were crew rest…

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Vintage Airline Seat Map: Eastern Airlines Airbus A300-B4

I previously posted the all-coach Air Shuttle version of Eastern’s Airbus A300s, and here now was their standard two-class bird for this installment of Vintage Airline Seat Maps. Check out the pair of seats in row 10. Those were either fabulous or horrible seats, regardless of the fact that 10A didn’t recline. I wonder if…

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Vintage Airline Seat Map: Eastern Airlines Airbus A300 B2 (Air-Shuttle)

Eastern Airlines pioneered the air shuttle concept in 1961 with hourly service from New York’s La Guardia airport to both Washington National and Boston. It was operated with Lockheed Constellations way back then and eventually included widebodies at peak times in the 1980s. In 1989, Donald Trump bought the Air-Shuttle service and operated it for…

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Vintage Airline Seat Map: Continental Airlines Airbus A300

Given my frequency of flights on Continental Airlines lately, I thought it appropriate to feature another aircraft from the airline for this installment of Vintage Airline Seat Maps. This is the Airbus A300 (or A300B2 if you want the nitty gritty). Configured for two classes of service, they were reallocated from Eastern Airlines over to…

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