Brussels A330-300 Seat Map & Best Seats (2026)

Quick Verdict

Aircraft: Airbus A330-300 — 295 or 285 seats across three cabin plans · 11 aircraft

Layout: Business staggered or 2-2-2 · Premium Economy 2-3-2 · Economy 2-4-2, A C | D E F G | H K

Version lottery: Yes — three plans, and two of them share the same 295-seat total with different Business cabins

Best seats — Business: 3A, 3K, 5A, 5K on the staggered aircraft — solo pods set inboard with their own aisle · 1D and 1G on the 2-2-2 aircraft

Best seats — Premium Economy: 11A and 11K on every plan — the only row without a bulkhead or a recline problem

Best seats — economy: 40B and 40J on the 295-seat plans · rows 19 to 21 on the 285-seat pair, at about 34in

Seats to avoid: rows 33 and 34 (295-seat plans) or rows 27 and 28 (285-seat pair) — sixteen and twenty red seats against the mid-cabin lavatories

Lavatories: two or three for Business; five shared by Premium Economy and Economy

IFE: Safran RAVE, gate to gate — 15.6in in Business, 13.3in in Premium Economy, 10.1in in Economy · Wi-Fi: not recorded on the 295-seat aircraft

The trap: the worst Business cabin is on the best economy aircraft

Brussels Airlines fits eleven A330-300s and publishes one headline configuration: 295 seats, 30 in Business, 21 in Premium Economy, 244 in Economy. Nine of the eleven match it. The other two do not, and they are the interesting ones.

OO-SFJ and OO-SFQ carry 285 seats and a six-abreast 2-2-2 Business cabin — Lufthansa-specification Collins Diamond seats, laid out A C | D G | H K across five rows. In a 2-2-2, every window seat sits behind a neighbour. Ten of the thirty Business seats on those two aircraft require stepping past somebody to reach the aisle. On the staggered cabin the other nine aircraft carry, that number is three.

And yet those same two aircraft have the best economy cabin in the fleet. Seventeen fewer economy seats buys a four-row Premium Economy instead of three — 28 seats instead of 21 — and 26 economy seats in rows 18 to 21 drawn at about 34 inches, three more than the 31in the cabin otherwise runs at. On the 295-seat aircraft, the only economy seats marked above standard pitch are 50A and 50K.

So the lottery cuts both ways depending on where you are sitting. In Business, you want a 295-seat aircraft. In economy, you want a 285-seat one.

The three cabin plans

Plan	Business	Premium	Economy	Aircraft	Registrations
295 seats	30, staggered	21	244	Eight	The common cabin
295 seats	30, staggered (different shape)	21	244	One	OO-SFX
285 seats	30, 2-2-2	28	227	Two	OO-SFJ, OO-SFQ

How to tell which aircraft you are on

All three plans look similar at a glance and the booking seat map gives each of them away quickly if you know what to look for.

Check	295-seat common	295-seat OO-SFX	285-seat pair
Last economy row	56	56	46
Last Business row	7	7	5
Premium Economy rows	10–12	10–12	10, 11, 12, 14
Look for seat 2B	Present	Absent	Absent
Look for seat 2C	Absent	Present	Present
Economy starts at row	20	20	16

The quickest single test is the last row number: 56 on the 295-seat aircraft, 46 on the 285-seat pair. To separate the two 295-seat plans, look at row 2 in Business — the common cabin has a 2B seat, OO-SFX has 2C and 2H instead.

Business on the nine staggered aircraft

Thirty lie-flat seats across seven rows, and the cabin alternates two row shapes. That alternation is the whole decision.

Rows	Shape	Window pods	Verdict
1, 3, 5, 7	1-2-1	A and K set inboard, beside the aisle	Solo pods, own aisle, nobody alongside
2, 4, 6 (common cabin)	2-2-1	A sits outboard with a neighbour; K is solo at the window	2A, 4A and 6A are the only trapped seats in the cabin
2, 4, 6 (OO-SFX)	2-1-2	A and K sit outboard with a neighbour	Six trapped window seats instead of three

Book 3A, 3K, 5A or 5K. On both staggered plans the odd rows are 1-2-1, every seat reaches an aisle directly, and rows 3 and 5 sit clear of the galley at the front and the lavatory at the back of the cabin.

The seats to know about at the edges of the cabin:

Seat	Plan	Issue
7K	Common cabin	No window at all — a windowless stretch of wall beside the pod
1A and 1K	OO-SFX	A plugged window section beside the pod — reduced view, not absent
6A and 6B	Common cabin	The Business lavatory sits behind them, though the source notes it is curtain-separated with little queuing
7D and 7F	Both	The galley behind them — noise and light through the meal service

Business on OO-SFJ and OO-SFQ: the 2-2-2 cabin

Five rows, six abreast, A C | D G | H K. These are Lufthansa-specification Collins Diamond seats and they lie flat, but the geometry is a generation behind the staggered cabin. Only 20 of the 30 seats reach an aisle without stepping past a neighbour, and the ten that do not are every A and K seat in the cabin.

If you are on one of these two aircraft, book D or G. They are the centre pair, each one touches an aisle, and neither has anybody to climb over. If you are travelling as two, D and G together is the best pairing on the aircraft. If you want the window, accept that you will be asking your neighbour to move.

Premium Economy: book row 11, on any of the three plans

Premium Economy is 2-3-2, lettered A C | D F G | H K on the 295-seat aircraft and A C | D E G | H K on the 285-seat pair. It is a 13.3-inch screen, a proper footrest, an AC outlet and a USB, and Brussels publishes 23% more legroom than economy with a 56% recline.

Whichever aircraft you are on, the cabin is three or four rows and row 11 is the only one without a problem:

Row	Issue	Verdict
10	Bulkhead with the wall 48–66cm (19–26in) ahead and no underseat storage; on the 285-seat pair the lavatories sit directly in front of it	Rated yellow on the 295-seat plans and red on the 285-seat pair
11	None	11A and 11K are the best seats in the cabin on every plan
12	Backs onto the divider — limited recline	A full-size seat that does not go back
14 (285-seat pair only)	Backs onto the divider — limited recline	Same problem as row 12 on the other plans

Economy: the mid-cabin lavatory bank decides everything

Both economy cabins are split by a bank of four or five lavatories roughly two-thirds of the way down, and the rows immediately around it are the worst seats on the aircraft. Where that bank sits is the single biggest difference between the plans.

	295-seat plans	285-seat pair
Red rows	33 and 34 — sixteen red seats, and row 34 does not recline	27 and 28 — twenty red seats, and row 28 does not recline
Exit row	Row 40 — all eight seats have extra legroom	Row 29 — the centre four only, with row 30’s outboard seats alongside
Also red	40D, 40E, 40F, 40G — inside the exit row	—
Extra-pitch seats	50A and 50K, about 33in	26 seats in rows 18–21, about 34in
Also worth avoiding	54A, 54C, 55A, 55C, 55D, 56D, 56F	Row 10 in Premium Economy

The exit row on the 295-seat plans is half red

Row 40 sits at door 3 and every one of its eight seats carries extra legroom. That is the headline and it is true. What it hides is that 40D, 40E, 40F and 40G sit directly behind the mid-cabin lavatory bank and are rated red for it, and that exit door L3 curves into part of 40A and 40K’s legroom from 35cm (14in) ahead, so your legs go in at a diagonal.

40B and 40J are the two seats in that row without a specific problem, and they are the best economy seats on the 295-seat aircraft: exit-row legroom, an aisle, no door intruding and no lavatory behind.

The letters change halfway down the cabin

This catches people out on the 295-seat plans. Rows 20 to 34 and 50 to 56 are lettered A C | D E F G | H K. Rows 40 to 49 use B in place of C and J in place of H. There is no B or J seat forward of row 40 and none behind row 49, so on those nine aircraft a seat numbered 40C does not exist. The 285-seat pair letters its whole economy cabin A C | D E F G | H K and does not do this.

The back of the cabin narrows

On the 295-seat plans, rows 53, 54 and 55 drop the E seat, which leaves 53G, 54G and 55G with nobody beside them and the spare underseat storage to themselves — a genuine bonus if you are travelling alone and do not mind sitting near the back. Row 56 is three seats, D, F and G. On the 285-seat pair the equivalent is rows 43 to 46, and 46A, 46C, 46H and 46K at the very back have a direct aisle with nobody to climb over.

Wi-Fi: the record is not clean

The cabin record shows no Wi-Fi on the nine 295-seat aircraft. For OO-SFJ and OO-SFQ the per-cabin notes list Inmarsat GX satellite Wi-Fi while the aircraft-level field still says none, so the two halves of the same record disagree. We are not resolving that for you: treat connectivity on the 285-seat pair as likely but unconfirmed, and assume none on the rest until Brussels says otherwise.

Entertainment is not in doubt. Safran RAVE runs gate to gate on every plan, with a 15.6-inch screen in Business, 13.3 inches in Premium Economy and 10.1 inches in Economy.

Quick-pick summary

Travelling as	Book	Why
Business, staggered aircraft	3A, 3K, 5A or 5K	Solo pods set inboard with their own aisle, clear of the galley and the lavatory
Business, two together	2E and 2F, or 4E and 4F (common cabin) · 1D and 1G (2-2-2 aircraft)	The centre seats are the pairing on both cabins
Business, 2-2-2 aircraft	Any D or G	The only ten seats in that cabin with a direct aisle
Premium Economy	11A or 11K	The one row with no bulkhead and no recline problem, on all three plans
Economy legroom, 295-seat	40B or 40J	Exit-row space without the lavatory bank or the door intrusion
Economy legroom, 285-seat	Rows 19, 20 or 21	26 seats at about 34in, three more than the cabin standard
Economy, travelling alone	53G, 54G or 55G (295-seat)	No seat beside you and the spare underseat storage
Avoid	Rows 33–34 or 27–28, row 10 in Premium, 7K in Business	The lavatory banks, the tight bulkhead and the windowless pod

Frequently asked questions

How many cabin versions does the Brussels Airlines A330-300 have?

Three, across eleven aircraft. Eight fly a 295-seat cabin with staggered Business. One, OO-SFX, flies the same 295-seat count with a differently shaped Business cabin. Two, OO-SFJ and OO-SFQ, fly 285 seats with a 2-2-2 Business cabin and a larger Premium Economy.

Which Brussels A330 has the best Business Class?

Any of the nine staggered aircraft. Twenty-four of their thirty seats are solo pods with direct aisle access, against twenty on OO-SFJ and OO-SFQ where the cabin is a six-abreast 2-2-2 and every window seat sits behind a neighbour.

Which Brussels A330 has the best economy?

OO-SFJ and OO-SFQ, the two 285-seat aircraft. They carry seventeen fewer economy seats, which buys 26 seats in rows 18 to 21 at about 34 inches of pitch. On the 295-seat aircraft the only economy seats above the 31in standard are 50A and 50K.

How do I tell which A330 I am on before I fly?

Look at the last row number on the booking seat map. It is 56 on the 295-seat aircraft and 46 on the 285-seat pair. To separate the two 295-seat plans, check whether row 2 in Business has a B seat: the common cabin does, OO-SFX has 2C and 2H instead.

Is the exit row worth booking in economy?

On the 295-seat aircraft, only 40B and 40J. All eight seats in row 40 have extra legroom, but 40D to 40G sit against the mid-cabin lavatory bank and are rated red, and exit door L3 cuts into 40A and 40K’s foot space from 35cm (14in) ahead.

Does the Brussels Airlines A330-300 have Wi-Fi?

The record is contradictory. The cabin data lists no Wi-Fi on the nine 295-seat aircraft, and on OO-SFJ and OO-SFQ the per-cabin notes name Inmarsat GX satellite Wi-Fi while the aircraft-level field says none. Do not count on connectivity until Brussels confirms it for your flight.

Which seat has no window?

7K in Business, on the eight common-cabin aircraft — a windowless stretch of wall beside the pod. On OO-SFX that same seat is fine, and 1A and 1K sit beside a plugged window section instead, which reduces the view rather than removing it.

Brussels Airlines A330-300 Seat Selection Guide (2026)