Fiji Airways Boeing B737 MAX 8 seat review by Andrew Brizhinev #37811

There are so many things good and bad about this plane I do not know where to start. Excellent cabin lighting and material, comfy seats with good width for the economy class I was flying. Pretty good screens and entertainment system, but marred by poor headphones, which leads me to the major issue I have with this plane - noise: the cabin was noisy. I could barely hear what flight attendants were saying (face mask did not help with that either). Could be that passengers at the front and in the back were fine, but us - near the wings and engines - got it in spades. I did not recline my seat, so cannot comment. Another thing that I think was not thought through is the number of lavatories - one in front for business and 1st class passengers and only 2 in the back, which makes it very uncomfortable for the majority of economy class seats. Just getting there with all the food trolleys either distributing food and drinks or collecting trays and cups after it was consumed - that was not making life easy. Just saying that an older, single-class A320 that I flew on my way to Fiji was much more comfortable in this regard.
Overall impression of this particular cabin layout and this particular aircraft can be summed as 50/50 - lots of good things spoiled by many bad ones.