Lufthansa 747-8 seat maps

Lufthansa 747-8 upper and lower deck seat maps.

By Alykhan Virani, Boeing 747 Enthusiast

Lufthansa launched the 747-8 Intercontinental on 6 December 2006 and was for a long time its only airline customer — Boeing publicly reassessed the whole programme in early 2009 because of it.

It went on to take 19 aircraft, by far the largest fleet, and is still flying them.

Both decks

The maps here cover the upper and main decks. The upper deck is a business cabin; the main deck carries first, business, premium economy and economy.

At 467 seats in three classes, the 747-8I’s nominal capacity is 51 more than a 747-400’s — the gain from an 18 ft 3 in fuselage stretch and from moving the crew rest area upstairs. Lufthansa’s own cabin is less dense than that brochure maximum: the launch layout seated 362, and the current four-class aircraft seats 364.

Still flying

Lufthansa is one of only four airlines still operating scheduled passenger 747 services, alongside Air China, Korean Air and Rossiya. These maps therefore describe an aircraft you can still book.

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Visual seat maps

Cabin zones run from the nose on the left to the tail on the right. Seat symbols show the typical abreast pattern, not every individual row.

Archived configuration2012

Lufthansa 747-8 Intercontinental launch layout

Lufthansa's launch cabin for the 747-8I: eight First seats in the nose, Business Class on both the main deck and the upper deck, and a large economy cabin aft.

362passenger seats

Upper deckBusiness Class, reached by the swept staircase

Business32 seats · 2-2 typicalRows 81–88 on the upper deck

Main deckNose at left

First8 seats · 1-2-1 typicalNose cabin, rows 1–3

Business60 seats · 2-2-2 typicalMain-deck business cabin, rows 4–11

Economy262 seats · 3-4-3 typicalEconomy cabin aft

Map note: This is the three-class layout announced for the June 2012 inaugural flight. Lufthansa has since split part of the business cabin into Premium Economy for a four-class aircraft of 364 seats.

Configuration source: Boeing — Lufthansa inaugural 747-8 Intercontinental flight, 1 June 2012