It’s still quite the workhorse for Delta Air Lines today, and appearing below in this installment of Vintage Airline Seat Maps is the original seating layout for the airline’s “Super 80†MD-88s first delivered in 1987.
Besides the amount of cabin real estate the rear galley occupied, there’s not too much to note about this bird.
You’d find me in row 3 in first class, and definitely in the forward section of coach since I love how quiet this aircraft was (is) during takeoff being so far forward of the engines.
Where would you sit?
Delta’s Super 80 seating
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Delta Air Lines DC-8-60 Seat Map
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I find it interesting this seat map describes the engines as being wing mounted. Seems like they are really tail mounted.
@Dan: Good catch! This particular map provider made that mistake on another one, as I recall.
Nice one! I love the super 80!!! The pair of seats in back makes economy so much more enjoyable. I’d take any of them in the front half of the plane. Also, I didn’t realize Delta called their MD-80s “Super 80”, I thought that was mostly an AA thing.
@downhillcrasher: American is definitely the main carrier who used (uses still I think) the “Super 80” language. I think Delta dropped it, or adopted “MD-88” officially, by 1990 or so.
38A.
That means the smokers were blowing the smoke onto the nonsmokers…