The Shanghai Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 seats 176 passengers across 2 cabins. Every row below is rated on legroom, location and distance from galleys and lavatories.
Verified by John McKeanLast verified 7 July 2026Single source
No standout or problem seats in this cabin.
The Shanghai Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 carries 176 passengers across Business + Economy. Power is available on this aircraft. Every seat is rated below, so you can see which have the legroom, the window alignment and the quiet — and which sit next to a galley or lavatory.
No seats are individually rated best on this configuration yet. The front rows of each cabin usually give a small legroom edge and clear quickest on arrival.
No seats are flagged to avoid on this configuration. As a rule, the last rows of Economy, seats beside a galley or lavatory, and middle seats are the ones travellers skip first.
Same two-cabin idea, newer aircraft. The MAX runs quieter engines and a fresher cabin, while the business section matches the airline's denser -800 fits for spacing rather than its roomiest. The seat advice carries over almost row for row.
For a longer domestic sector, a wide two-by-two seat and a small, calm cabin still beat the strongest row in economy. If you were hoping for the long-pitched front cabin of the airline's standard -800, this is the tighter version of it.
The bulkhead row behind business, the exit rows over the wing, and the forward third generally, which boards and clears fastest. The MAX is at its quietest ahead of the engines.
The final ones, which trade calm for closeness to the lavatories and galley and leave the aircraft last, and the seats directly ahead of the exits, which give up recline for the escape path.
8Business168Economy176Total
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