{"id":363947,"date":"2026-02-07T11:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T01:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/airlines-worlds-widest-economy-seats-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T11:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T01:00:18","slug":"the-airlines-with-the-worlds-widest-economy-seats-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=363947","title":{"rendered":"The Airlines With The World\u2019s Widest Economy Seats In 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most mainline economy class seats have a seat width of around 17 to 18 inches (43-45 cm), with many US-based carrier widebody seats being closer to 17 inches. A few airlines go over 18 inches up to as much as 19 inches (48.26 cm) on select aircraft types. At the other end of the spectrum, airlines like <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2030434\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/french-bee-bring-480-seat-airbus-a350-100s-newark\/\" >the low-cost airline French Bee have seats just 16.7 inches wide<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beyond some Asian airlines, the best way to get extra space between other economy class passengers is to focus on the aircraft type.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,787,3183,1236,651,1005],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-all-nippon-airways","category-economy-class","category-japan-airlines","category-seats","category-singapore-airlines"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=363947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363951,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363947\/revisions\/363951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=363947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=363947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=363947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}