Back in July this year, we reported that Singapore Airlines had extended its 3D seat maps to four more aircraft types, leaving only two without the feature, the Airbus A350 Long Haul and the Airbus A380.
Given the renewed momentum, we said at the time that we’d expect both to follow before long, and now they have.
Both types have now gained the 3D seat presentation at the seat selection stage, which means all seven aircraft types Singapore Airlines currently operates let you pan around your chosen seat before you commit to it.
A quick recap
For anyone who missed our earlier coverage, these 3D seat maps first appeared in October 2024, but initially on the Boeing 777-300ER alone.
They’re the work of Spanish design agency 3D SeatMapVR, whose cabin presentations are also used by the likes of Emirates, Etihad and Finnair.
When you reach the seat selection stage of a booking, you can pan around your chosen seat as though you’re already sitting in it, helping you get a good sense of its placement in the cabin, how private it is (or isn’t), and how it lines up with the windows.
You can also view the seat from the aisle, as though standing next to it, zoom in to inspect the finer details, and switch on an ambient sound option that plays Singapore Airlines’ boarding music while you look around.
Choosing a seat on Singapore Airlines over the years has always involved a degree of guesswork around privacy, row alignment and window positioning, precisely the things a flat 2D map can be useless at conveying, and that’s the main benefit of this new feature.
Things had already improved in mid-2022, when aeroLOPA added detailed seat maps for the entire SIA fleet, drawn to scale and far more useful than anything SeatGuru ever managed – not that SeatGuru is still an option, TripAdvisor having shut it down altogether in November 2025.
Airbus A350 Long Haul
The Airbus A350 Long Haul is the workhorse of Singapore Airlines’ long-haul network, but strangely was the last of the A350 variants to get the 3D treatment.
While there are two versions of Economy Class seats fitted on these aircraft, as we cover in our guide to SIA’s A350 fleet, the older seat design is reflected in the 3D seat map. Newer 2017 Economy Class seats are fitted to the airline’s ‘A350 Long Haul Plus’ sub-fleet (9V-SMV onwards and 9V-SJA onwards).
It’s a reminder that these renders are tied to an aircraft type rather than a specific registration, so sub-fleet variations like this one slip through.
Airbus A380
The Airbus A380 is the more interesting of the two additions, if only because it carries the widest spread of cabin products in the fleet, including two totally unique seat types – 2017 Suites and 2017 Business Class – which together occupy the entire upper deck.
In Business Class on the A380, the 3D seat map reveals that the rear Business Class mini-cabin at rows 96-97 isn’t really enclosed at all – what sits between it and row 95 is simply a set of emergency exit doors.
It’s something difficult to envisage from the airline’s 2D seat map, which might suggest a much more enclosed and private section.
(Image: Singapore Airlines)
Where the fleet now stands
With the rollout complete at the main seat selection stage, here’s how the three different 3D and 360° features now line up across the fleet:
| SIA 3D Cabin Tools by Aircraft Type | |||
| Aircraft Type |
3D Seat View (seat selection) |
Cabin Walk-Through |
SilverKris 360° Tour |
| Airbus A350 LH |
Yes (new) |
No | No |
| Airbus A350 MH |
Yes |
No | No |
| Airbus A350 ULR |
Yes | No | No |
| Airbus A380 |
Yes (new) |
No | Yes |
| Boeing 737-8 MAX |
Yes | No | Yes |
| Boeing 777-300ER |
Yes | Yes | No |
| Boeing 787-10 |
Yes | No | No |
What’s still missing
Two of the three gripes from our July article remain.
It’s still browser-only
You’ll need to be on a browser to see these 3D seat views. The functionality still hasn’t made it into the SingaporeAir mobile app, even for the Boeing 777-300ER, a full two years after it first appeared. Given how many readers book and manage flights on their phones, this is now the most obvious hole in the offering.
The walk-through is still 777-300ER only
The full virtual cabin walk-through, added in March 2025, lets you step aboard in any cabin class, walk down the aisle jumping from row to row, and drop into selected seats to examine features like privacy dividers, footrests and entertainment screens up close.
It remains exclusive to the 777-300ER, and whether it ever spreads to other types is anyone’s guess.
You can still access it directly on the SIA website’s 777-300ER fleet page, under the ‘Explore our cabins in 3D’ section.
Interestingly the carrier’s A380 page now also has the ‘Explore our cabins in 3D’ section, but the preview images are of the Boeing 777 cabins, and the links go nowhere!
Those other virtual tours
Muddying the picture as before, Singapore Airlines continues to run an entirely separate set of virtual cabin tours over on its SilverKris site, which aren’t linked from the fleet pages at all.
SilverKris’s ‘Explore Our Cabins’ page still offers just two – a 360° tour of the Airbus A380, and a ‘virtual journey’ through the Boeing 737-8 MAX. Both are 360° panoramas you pan around, dotted with tappable hotspots calling out features like the seat, its privacy and the dining.
When we wrote in July, the A380 tour served as a partial substitute for a type that wasn’t available via the main system. That’s no longer the case – the A380 now has both, delivered two different ways, on two different websites, in two different styles.
It’s all a bit confusing.
A new issue ahead?
There’s potentially a shelf life on some of this. Singapore Airlines is due to unveil its next-generation long-haul Business Class and First Class products in November 2026, with the first Airbus A350 Long Haul retrofit due to enter service on the network from early 2027.
Once those cabins start appearing, the 3D renders for the retrofitted aircraft will need rebuilding, and in the early days at least the airline will be running a mixed fleet, so the 3D seat you’re shown at the booking stage might not match the seat you actually get, either due to long-term changes or even short-notice operational swaps.
That won’t just be an issue in Business Class either. On SIA’s retrofitted A350 Long Haul aircraft the Economy Class cabin layout will be changing too, with five additional seats squeezed in.
Summary
Singapore Airlines has added 3D seat maps to the Airbus A350 Long Haul and Airbus A380, completing a rollout that began on the Boeing 777-300ER back in October 2024 and stalled for well over a year before restarting this July.
All seven aircraft types in the fleet now offer the 3D seat view at the seat selection stage, which is very useful for judging privacy, row alignment and window positioning before you commit – all the things a flat 2D map can be poor at conveying.
Two frustrations persist though. The feature is still browser-only, with no sign of it reaching the SingaporeAir app, and one of the most useful tools – the full cabin walk-through – remains a Boeing 777-300ER exclusive with no obvious momentum behind expanding it.
The separate SilverKris 360° tours for the A380 and 737-8 MAX also remain live and, confusingly, remain unconnected to everything else.
Still, if you’re booking Singapore Airlines on a desktop browser, it’s now worth expanding the 3D render of your seat and taking a look at its features and surrounds before committing, whichever aircraft type you’re flying.
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