I’ve posted several United 747s in the past (here, here and here), and now bring you the version I most frequently flew in the 1990s for this installment of Vintage Airline Seat Maps.
Personally, I loved to sit downstairs on this aircraft in the forward business class section (rows 5-7). If I recall correctly, however, the middle seats in rows 25-27 offered the most legroom.
And these were the days before Economy Plus, so rows 32-34 in coach were very tight, as I recall sitting there on a flight from Australia to the U.S. and it was incredibly uncomfortable.
Where would you sit?
United Airlines Boeing 747-400 OB Seat Map
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United Airlines Boeing 747-400 OP Seat Map
What does the * denote? (next to In-Seat Video in the Economy cabin)
15H for me – LAX-SYD everytime!
@Gene: Ack… I cut the *-description out… I’m sorry I don’t know. 🙁
That was back when LCD displays were expensive. How did the “personal video”, that they offered in first class, work? Did they have handheld viewers back then?
@aadvantagegeek: I don’t recall if they were “in armrest” or not… but I think so.
I was a Delta flyer in the early 90s and I think that they were still using projectors on the L-1011s. United must have been ahead of everyone else back then.
The passenger experience has come a long way since then!
Back in the 1990’s, was there an OP? version of the 747 with 32 First Class seats?
@Robert: Oh yes indeed… loved flying United’s 747-400 OPs
No, personal videos meant in-seat videos in the armrest run in a loop. If you had flown LH old F, TG old F, OZ old F on the 744, you know most of these airlines have 2+2 config in F on the 744. Handheld device did not exist in the 90s, and it didn’t even become popular in the mid-2000. As there were no power plugs in the seat itself, so where to plug any handheld device or even laptop.