Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 Seat Map

Best seats on the Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9

The clear standouts on this jet are the row 17 exit-row seats, which pair extra legroom with a full recline the exit rows ahead don't get, and row 6 Premium Class, the front of that cabin with the most legroom. Up front, any First Class recliner is a comfortable pick—just favor rows 2–4 over row 1 for the underseat storage. Every seat has streaming IFE, power (USB-A plus 110/220v), and WiFi.

First Class

The four rows of 2-2 recliners (rows 1–4) all offer 41" pitch, 21.3" width, footrests, and cup holders. 1A, 1C, 1D and 1F are rated only yellow: while there's no seat ahead of you, the bulkhead means no underseat storage and no stretch-out foot room, so everything must go in the bin at takeoff and landing. For that reason, rows 2, 3 and 4 are the smarter First Class choice—same recliner, but with underseat storage and a normal seatback in front. There's no bad seat in this cabin; it's just a row-1 storage trade-off.

Premium Class

Premium Class runs 3-3 across rows 6–10 with 34" pitch. Row 6 (6A–6F) is rated green for its extra legroom at the front of the cabin—the best pick here. The catch is fixed armrests with the tray tables stowed inside them, which slightly narrows hip room, and the aisle-side 6C often sits where the cabin divider hangs. Rows 7–10 are standard Premium seats; one traveler singled out 7A with a simple "Beautiful." Note that rows 13–20 sit over the wing, so window seats from row 10 onward begin losing the open view.

Economy

Economy is 3-3, 31–32" pitch, spread across rows 6–13, 15–32 and 34. The best economy seats by a wide margin are the row 17 exit seats (17A–17F), all rated green: real extra legroom and they still recline. Skip the exit row directly ahead—15A–15F and 16A–16F have no recline because they front the exits (16 is the marginally better of the two, rated yellow-green).

Windows are the main pitfall in the forward cabin. 11A has no window at all (a wall panel covers it), and 12A and 12F have misaligned windows that leave you staring at a pillar. If the view matters, avoid these and remember rows 13–20 are over the wing with a restricted outlook. Row 26 also sits over a permanently plugged emergency-exit position on the left side, so 26A's window spacing is slightly off—fine, but not the picture window it looks like.

The rear cabin is where comfort drops. Because a galley and lavatory sit behind row 34, the last rows carry noise, traffic and reduced recline: 32A and 32B have limited recline, 32C, 32D, 34D are rated bad, and 31C, 31D, 32C, 32D, 34E and 34F are all flagged near-lavatory, with 34E/34F also limited-recline. Note that 33A/B/C and 34A/B/C don't exist, so 34D–34F are true back-row seats hard against the rear galley and lav.

For a quiet, quick-exit economy seat with a proper window, target the low-to-mid rows away from the wing—rows 6–10 on the window (ahead of the over-wing zone) deplane fastest and recline normally, as long as you steer clear of 11A and 12A/12F. If legroom is the priority, nothing in economy beats row 17.