What is different about 737-800?

The 737-800 is the best-selling 737NG variant. It has a redesigned wing with a larger area, a wider wingspan, greater fuel capacity, and higher maximum takeoff weights (MTOW) and longer range. It has CFM International CFM56-7 series engines, a glass cockpit, and upgraded and redesigned interior configurations.



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Focused on fuel efficiency and passenger comfort, the Boeing 737-800 has 147 leather Recaro seats with more personal space, seatback outlets, Boeing's award-winning Sky Interior, inflight internet service, and access to the Inflight entertainment hub.

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The Boeing 737-800—the type of aircraft involved in Monday's loss of a China Eastern Airlines jet in southern China—has a global reputation as an airline workhorse and comes with a good safety record.

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The Boeing 737-800 is one of the most common aircraft in the world, and considered to be one of the safest. For comparison, all models of the Airbus A300, another popular commercial aircraft, have a marginally higher crash rate of 0.46 crashes per million flights.

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On an American Airlines Boeing 737-800, for example, the seat-rating site SeatGuru warns of several “bad” seats, denoted in red. They include all the seats in row 30, at the back of the aircraft. The reasons are obvious: Like Conway's, the seats in row 30 are next to lavatories and don't fully recline.

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The United Boeing 737-800 (738) has three different layouts. In Layout 1, it's in rows 11 and 12 where you would select a window seat and end up with a seat sans window. I can vouch for that — it was the Boeing 737-800 (738) Layout 1 which got me good on that flight from Chicago to Phoenix. That damn pesky B738!

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American Airlines has 265 737-800 NGs in service, while Southwest Airlines has 205, United Airlines has 136 and Delta Air Lines has 77, according to Cirium. Boeing delivered nearly 5,000 of the planes to customers between 1998 and 2020, according to Boeing data.

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The two airliners also have several important design differences, including different types of turbofan engines The 737 Max uses CFM Leap-1B engines which are more fuel efficient than the 737-800's CFM56s.

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Southwest Airlines - the largest operator Correspondingly, it also operates the world's largest fleet of Boeing 737 aircraft. According to Planespotters.net, it presently consists of 728 examples of aircraft from the popular narrowbody family, with an average age of 12.5 years.

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737-800. The Boeing 737-800 is a stretched version of the 737-700. It replaced the 737-400 and competes primarily with the Airbus A320. The 737-800 seats 162 passengers in a two-class layout or 189 passengers in a one-class layout.

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The 737-800 has a maximum fuel capacity of 6,875 gallons, which it carries in fuel tanks in its wings, as seen here, and in a fuel tank located underneath the passenger cabin's midsection. Fully loaded, the jet can fly up to 3,159 miles without refueling.

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They are the same jet. The 738 is the abbreviated or short hand nomenclature for a 737-800. 739 is 737-900, and so on. The reason is that in ATC systems and on flight strips, the field length for characters representing the aircraft were only 3 characters in length.

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“The middle seats are safer than the window or aisle seats, that is, as you might expect, because of the buffer provided by having people on either side,” the aviation professor at Central Queensland University said in the Conversation.

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OK, so the back row is the single worst place to sit on a plane and you should steer clear of it at all costs. But which other seats should you avoid? All middle seats are unpopular for obvious reasons, and the seats in front of an exit row aren't ideal either.

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While AirlineRatings.com does not officially release rankings for the least-safe airlines, the following carriers featured at the bottom of the list with one-star rankings: Nepal Airlines (Nepal), Airblue (Pakistan), Sriwijaya Air (Indonesia), Blue Wing (Suriname), Pakistan International Airlines and Air Algerie ( ...

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Running since 1929, Hawaiian is among the oldest airlines in the world but, remarkably, it has never suffered a single fatal crash or hull loss.

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