Originally Posted by
zaphod424
What's with the seat numbering on the new 789 config? The front cabin makes sense, but then it jumps from 8 to 20, and then from 25 to 45? The old layout has skipped numbers where you have a galley or class divide (as is common), but the gaps are small (eg 7-10, 13-16), same is true of the new CS 788 and 777 configs. Why such huge gaps in the new 789 layout? Seems odd having eg 46A, despite actually being the 14th row of seats.
Isn't it to unify the numbering across all the fleet in due course? So it'll be based on the largest plane, i.e. the A380. It'd mean Club and PE would start at the same row number on all widebodies, for example...