nkAIRNORTH Embraer 190 Seat Map
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Cabin details
Business
- SeatStandard recline
- Pitch38 in (96 cm)
Economy
- SeatStandard recline
- Layoutstandard
- Pitch30 in (76 cm)
- Recline3"
- Air ventssingle
- Tray tableseatback
Choosing your seat on Airnorth's Embraer 190
Almost everyone on this jet sits in the economy cabin — rows 5 to 25, laid out 2-2 with no middle seat anywhere, so every passenger gets a window or an aisle and nobody climbs over two strangers. Pitch is 30 inches with standard recline, and there are no seatback screens, so bring your own entertainment. Boarding and deplaning happen through the forward door, which shapes a lot of the advice below.
Tall, or flying a long sector?
Row 11 is the exit row — the door sits immediately ahead of it — and 11A, 11B, 11E and 11F are the four best seats in the aircraft for legroom, with no penalty attached. Row 5 is the runner-up: 5A, 5B, 5E and 5F have the bulkhead ahead and plenty of stretch space, but the trays fold out of the armrests, so the armrests are fixed, the seats measure slightly narrower, and there's nowhere to stow a bag at your feet until cruise. On the Perth–Alice Springs–Cairns run, which can block out past six hours, that trade-off matters more than on a short Darwin hop.
Which seats should I refuse?
Row 10 — 10A, 10B, 10E, 10F — sits directly ahead of the exit row and its recline is limited or blocked. Row 25 is worse: it's the last row, with a lavatory behind 25A and 25B and the galley behind 25E and 25F, meaning queues at your elbow, service noise and the slowest exit on the aeroplane. In business, 1A backs onto the forward lavatory and galley, so it's the weakest seat in a cabin that's otherwise excellent.
What's business class actually like?
Rows 1 to 4, arranged 1-2 — a single seat on the A side, a pair on E/F — with 38 inches of pitch and standard recline. Note that 1E and 1F don't exist, so row 1 is a lone seat. Solo travellers should take 2A, 3A or 4A: nobody beside you, direct aisle access, and none of the forward-galley traffic that spoils 1A. Couples want 3E/3F or 4E/4F.
Window people and couples
The windows on this type are unusually large and set at eye level, and the cabin feels bright because of it. Alignment isn't perfect down the whole cabin, though — the extra pitch up front pushes the seats out of step with the window pitch behind, so a few window seats land partly between panes. There's no single row our map flags as blind; if the view is the point, pick a window and glance back one row before settling.
Couples in economy: any A/B or E/F pair works, but 11A/11B gives you the legroom and a fast walk off.
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What travel bloggers say
- Perth–Alice Springs–Cairns is blocked at up to 6 hours 5 minutes, making it Australia's longest one-stop, same-plane, same-flight-number domestic service, with just a half-hour turn in Alice Springs.
- The E190 is the rostered aircraft on the run, though tracking data shows the smaller E170 occasionally substituting.
- Airnorth's four 100-seat E190s are the youngest part of a 12-strong all-Embraer fleet, averaging 15.6 years, and every aircraft is fitted in a single all-economy cabin.
- The E190s are dry-leased from Alliance Airlines — aircraft only, without crew, maintenance or insurance — with three coming from Austria's Niki and one, VH-A2A, arriving after 17 years at JetBlue.
- The 1,854-mile routing revives sectors the majors walked away from: Qantas dropped Perth–Alice Springs in 2022 and QantasLink ended Alice Springs–Cairns in 2020.
- Two 94-seat E190s, VH-UYC and VH-UYR, joined the E170s on dry lease from Brisbane-based Alliance Airlines, both ex-Copa Airlines frames aged roughly 14.5 and 16 years.
- Airnorth's pitch of lower fuel burn, shorter travel times, longer range, streamlined ground servicing and 11% less CO2 gets a sceptical read: "While Airnorth is selling the E190s as passenger-friendly, the airline picks up the more substantial benefits."
- A quoted range of up to five hours comfortably covers the 90-minute Darwin–Dili hop, the 60-minute Darwin–Nhulunbuy run and the roughly four-hour, 1,648-mile Darwin–Perth sector.
- More service doors and low ground-equipment collision risk allow simultaneous deplaning and cabin servicing, speeding turnarounds on remote stops.
- The extra capacity lets Airnorth upgauge routes previously flown by its three E170s and chase more charter and FIFO work as a rare all-Embraer operator of about a dozen aircraft.
- Called the flight "faultless" on TL160 from Darwin to Cairns, paying his own way.
- The 2–2 cabin layout eliminates the middle seat entirely, so every passenger gets either a window or an aisle.
- Rated seat comfort very good: 31-inch pitch versus the 30 inches common on 737s, and width up to 18.3 inches, differences he says were noticeable over the journey.
- Praised the unusually large windows — around 185 square inches, bigger than a 737's — for a brighter cabin and better views.
- Complimentary catering "exceeded expectations for a regional service": tea, coffee and juice, banana bread on the Darwin–Gove sector and fruit cake plus a chocolate slice out of Gove; the stop delivers two take-offs and landings inside a 3h30m total journey, and ground staff at automated Darwin chec