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Vintage Airline Seat Map: American Airlines Boeing 727-200 From 1977

I previously posted American’s 727-100 from 1977 and here now is the stretched -200 series for this installment of Vintage Airline Seat Maps. American offered 16 seats in first class and 111 in coach on this pre-deregulation 727-200. Seat pitch in first was probably around 38-inches and economy likely had a very generous 36-inch pitch.…

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Vintage Airline Seat Map: United Airlines Boeing 767-300 (1998)

Here’s United’s original international configuration of their Boeing 767-300 fleet for this installment of Vintage Airline Seat Maps. Seating a total of 206 passengers, first class offered 10 seats in the 2-1-2 configuration, business class (then called Connoisseur Class) was in the typical 2-2-2 layout with 38 seats and coach seated 158 passengers in the…

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Vintage Airline Seat Map: United Airlines Boeing 747-400 OP

As I’ll be flying a United 747 this week to Australia, I looked back at all the seating configurations United had over the years and bring you one from 1998 for this installment of Vintage Airline Seat Maps. It’s not that vintage, I know, but it was a unique layout given the amount of premium…

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Vintage Airline Seat Map: Pan Am Airbus A310

The Airbus A310 is a shortened version of its A300 predecessor widebody aircraft and I’ve selected a Pan Am A310 for this installment of Vintage Airline Seat Maps. Seating a total of 225 passengers, 18 seats occupied the forward cabin, called either First Class domestically or Clipper Class (business) internationally. Here you’d definitely find me…

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Vintage Airline Seat Map: American Airlines DC-10 (Hawaii) from 1987

Let’s kick off the Memorial Day weekend with another Vintage Airline Seat Map, shall we? I previously posted two other versions of American Airlines’ DC-10s from the past (here and here), and the one appearing below was seen flying the skies in 1987. Seating a total of 313 passengers in a high-density “Hawaii†configuration, there…

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Vintage Airline Seat Map: United Airlines Royal Pacific Boeing 747-200 (1987)

United Airlines purchased Pan Am’s Pacific Division and acquired several aircraft in 1985 and I’ve selected a 747-200 from that time period featuring United’s Royal Pacific configuration for this installment of Vintage Airline Seat Maps. This particular layout – one of several in United’s 747 fleet at the time – was likely seen flying the…

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Vintage Airline Seat Map: TWA Boeing 767-200 from 1987

My roommate just told me that a well known Pastor, Fulton J. Sheen, used to refer to Trans World Airlines (TWA) as “Travel With Angels.†Well here’s a TWA Boeing 767-200 for the current installment of Vintage Airline Seat Maps. Seating a total of 184 passengers in three classes, this bird saw 15 seats in…

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Vintage Airline Seat Map: American Airlines DC-10-10 LuxuryLiner (1977)

It’s time for another edition of Vintage Airline Seat Maps and this is probably one of the coolest layouts for a Douglas DC-10-10 that I’ve ever seen. The American Airlines configuration shown below seated a total of 264 passengers and was flying in the pre-deregulation era when airlines were less concerned with packing the greatest…

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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 DC-10-30 (South Pacific)

I previously posted a Continental Airlines “Pub Version†of the Douglas DC-10-10 from the 1980s, and the one appearing below was their long-haul DC-10-30 from the same time period. It’s reported in the Continental Wiki (sourced from a book written by a former Continental manager) that President Jimmy Carter approved Continental to begin flying from…

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