ANA Premium Economy Review: Seat Map, Fees and Cost

ANA Premium Economy gives you 38 inches (97 cm) of seat pitch on most of the fleet, 40 inches (101 cm) on the newest Boeing 787-9, two checked bags on the right fare, and one thing few airlines include with this class of ticket: a lounge before you fly. All Nippon Airways (ANA) admits Premium Economy passengers to ANA lounges at Haneda, Narita, Kansai and Honolulu ahead of an ANA Group operated international flight, which is unusual in a cabin that normally buys you a seat and nothing on the ground.

The rest of the decision is less simple than the brochure makes it look. ANA sells Premium Economy on 8 cabin layouts across 5 aircraft types, and they are not the same product. Three of those layouts carry a 15.6-inch screen and a table that swivels out of the armrest. Four of them start the footrest in the second row, so the bulkhead seat that looks like the prize is the one seat in the cabin without one. One Boeing 787-8 layout has no Premium Economy cabin at all.

This page is built to be used before you book rather than read once. It covers the seat map row by row for every aircraft that carries the cabin, what seat selection costs and when it is free, the baggage allowance under both the piece count and the weight limit, how the meal service is structured, the lounge rule, and what the fare came to on three named routes on 18 September 2026. Every figure comes from ANA’s own site unless the sentence says otherwise. ANA publishes a separate seat page for each aircraft layout, carrying the pitch on all of them and the seat width on 3, so the specification numbers below are the airline’s rather than a third party’s estimate.

ANA Premium Economy: what you actually get

ANA Premium Economy gets you a wider, deeper seat with a legrest, a free seat assignment on most fares, two checked bags, a lounge before departure and free in-flight text messaging. ANA publishes each of these figures on ana.co.jp, and the table below records what every row said on 18 September 2026.

The lounge row and the seat-selection row are the two worth reading twice. Lounge access is the genuine outlier in this cabin, and seat selection is the line that catches people out, because ANA’s new Basic fare removes seat choice altogether rather than charging for it.

Readers weighing the cabin against the one behind it will find the general case, rather than the ANA-specific one, in the Wonderful Wanderings guide to premium economy versus economy.

I flew ANA Premium Economy from Tokyo Haneda to London Heathrow in November 2025, on the 212-seat Boeing 777-300ER, in seat 26A at the window.

ANA Premium Economy seat map, by aircraft

The ANA Premium Economy seat map changes with the aircraft and with the layout inside that aircraft, so the only reliable check is to open the seat map for your flight number rather than for the route. ANA flies the cabin on the Airbus A380, the Boeing 777-300ER in two layouts, the Boeing 787-9 in three, the Boeing 787-10 and one of the two Boeing 787-8 layouts. The descriptions below come from ANA’s own published seat-map text, which lists rows, galleys, lavatories and missing windows in words.

One rule holds across the whole fleet. Armrests are fixed in every ANA Premium Economy seat on every aircraft, so an empty row never becomes a place to lie down.

Boeing 777-300ER, new 212-seat layout

The new 212-seat 777-300ER puts 24 Premium Economy seats in rows 25 to 27 in a 2-4-2 layout. Seats run A and C by the left window, D, E, F and G in the centre, and H and K by the right window, with First Class in rows 1 and 2, Business Class in rows 5 to 20 and Economy starting at row 30.

Row 25 is the bulkhead, because ANA’s map places shared monitors in front of it. Rows 28 and 29 do not exist, and the gap between row 27 and row 30 holds a galley, the wheelchair-accessible lavatory serving seats 30A, B and C, and exits on both sides. Row 27 therefore backs onto working space, and the centre four seats in that row, 27D to 27G, have traffic on both aisles.

Row 25 also carries the bassinets. ANA fits them at 25A, 25E, 25F and 25K, so 4 of the 8 seats in the bulkhead row are where families are seated.

Ask for a window pair in row 26. Think twice about 27D to 27G, and about row 25 because of the bassinets. This is the layout with the 15.6-inch screen, the six-way headrest and the table that swivels 90 degrees out of the armrest, which is the version of the seat most people mean when they say ANA Premium Economy is good.

Boeing 777-300ER, 212-seat layout

The older 212-seat 777-300ER also puts 24 Premium Economy seats in rows 25 to 27 in 2-4-2, but the seat is a different generation. ANA lists 38 inches (97 cm) of pitch and 19.3 inches (49 cm) of width, a 10.6-inch screen with a 12.1-inch screen on the first row, and, in ANA’s own words, a footrest starting in the second row.

The footrest line is the one worth acting on. Row 25 is the bulkhead and has no footrest, so the row that looks like the roomiest in the cabin is the only row that gives a feature up. It is also where ANA fits the cabin’s 2 bassinets, at 25A and 25K. Business Class here runs to row 21, a galley sits directly behind row 27, and a second galley sits in front of row 30.

Ask for a window pair in row 26. Think twice about row 25 if the footrest or the bassinets matter to you, and about row 27 because of the galley immediately behind it.

Boeing 787-9, 206-seat layout

The 206-seat 787-9 carries the newest ANA Premium Economy seat, 21 of them in rows 15 to 17 in a 2-3-2 layout of A and C, then D, F and G, then H and K. ANA puts the pitch at 40 inches (101 cm), 2 inches more than the rest of the fleet, and the recline at 9 inches (23 cm), also 2 inches more. The headrest carries large wing panels, the screen is 15.6 inches, there are USB-A and USB-C sockets, and this is the only ANA Premium Economy cabin with Bluetooth audio, delivered through the RAVE entertainment system.

Row 15 is the bulkhead. It is also where the infants sit, because ANA’s seat map lists bassinet positions at 15A, 15D, 15G and 15K, 4 of the 7 seats in that row. Galleys sit behind row 6 and behind row 21, so neither touches the cabin, and Economy does not start until row 20.

Ask for a window pair in row 16 or row 17. Think twice about row 15 on an overnight flight, because the bassinets are fitted there and nowhere else in the cabin.

Boeing 787-9, 246-seat and 215-seat layouts

The two older 787-9 layouts run the same 2-3-2 Premium Economy cabin at 38 inches (97 cm) of pitch and 19.3 inches (49 cm) of width, with an 11-inch screen and the footrest again starting in the second row. The 246-seat layout holds 14 seats in rows 15 and 16. The 215-seat layout holds 21 seats in rows 15 to 17.

Neither layout puts a galley or a lavatory against the Premium Economy cabin. On the 246-seat aircraft the galleys sit behind row 8 and behind row 27. On the 215-seat aircraft they sit behind row 7 and behind row 22. Economy begins at row 20 on both.

Ask for a window pair in row 16, or row 17 on the 215-seat layout. Think twice about row 15 on either aircraft, because the footrest starts in the second row and the bassinets are fitted there: 15A, 15F and 15K on the 246-seat layout, and 15A, 15D, 15G and 15K on the 215-seat one.

Boeing 787-10

The 787-10 seats 21 Premium Economy passengers in rows 15 to 17 in 2-3-2, with 38 inches (97 cm) of pitch, a legrest, the 15.6-inch screen and the swivelling table. Business Class runs rows 1 to 10 and Economy runs rows 20 to 47, 235 seats on a single deck.

Row 15 has a problem on this aircraft and on no other. ANA’s seat map puts a galley in front of row 15, and lavatories with a bidet and a changing table in front of seats 15A and 15C and in front of seats 15H and 15K. The bulkhead window pairs on the 787-10 therefore sit directly behind two lavatory doors and a working galley for the whole flight, and the bassinets go in at 15A, 15F and 15K on top of that.

Ask for row 16 or row 17. Refuse row 15 unless aisle access matters to you more than the noise and the queue.

Boeing 787-8, 184-seat layout

The 184-seat 787-8 carries 14 Premium Economy seats in rows 15 and 16 in 2-3-2, at 38 inches (97 cm) of pitch and 19.3 inches (49 cm) of width, with a 10.6-inch screen, a 12.1-inch screen on the first row, and the footrest starting in the second row. Galleys sit at the front of the cabin, behind row 5 and at the back, so nothing working stands next to the cabin.

ANA’s other 787-8 layout, the 240-seat one, holds 42 Business Class seats and 198 Economy seats and no Premium Economy cabin at all. A missing cabin is the strongest reason to check the seat map by flight number rather than by route, because the aircraft type on your booking does not tell you whether Premium Economy is fitted.

Ask for a window pair in row 16. Think twice about row 15, which has no footrest and carries the bassinets at 15A, 15D, 15G and 15K.

Airbus A380, Tokyo Narita to Honolulu

The A380 carries the largest ANA Premium Economy cabin, 73 seats in rows 20 to 30 on the upper deck, between Business Class and the rear stairs. ANA lists 38 inches (97 cm) of pitch, a legrest and a 15.6-inch screen, with an 11.6-inch screen on the first row. Economy sits on the main deck, so the upper deck holds First, Business and Premium Economy only, and the cabin feels quieter than the seat count suggests.

The layout is not uniform. Row 20 is a centre-only row of 3 seats, D, F and G, with no window seat at all, and the cabin’s single bassinet position is at 20F. Rows 21 to 30 run the full 2-3-2. Seats A, C, H and K in rows 21 and 28 are emergency exit seats. Seats 28A and 28K have no window despite sitting at the window line, which ANA states plainly on its own map. Lavatories sit behind seats 30H and 30K, and ANA puts a galley at the rear of the upper deck, immediately behind row 30.

Ask for 21A and 21C or 21H and 21K, an exit-row window pair with the legroom that comes with it. Refuse 28A and 28K, which are windowless window seats. Think twice about row 30, which backs onto the lavatories and the galley, and about row 20, which has the smaller first-row screen, the bassinet and no window seat.

The rows to ask for and the rows to refuse

The rows to ask for and the rows to refuse are set out by layout below, with ANA’s own row numbers.

After eight hours in 26A, the recline was still comfortable and the legrest made changing sleeping positions easier. The footrest helped at first but did less once I tried to sleep on my side. The tray was solid enough for eating and working, and the two-seat window pair kept contact with my neighbour limited.

Seat selection: what it costs and when it is free

ANA Premium Economy seat selection is free on every fare except Basic, where it is not sold at any price. ANA’s Paid Advance Seat Reservation covers Economy Class passengers only, which is the plain answer to a question most airlines answer with a price list.

The Basic fare is the exception and it is new. ANA introduced it for Business Class and Premium Economy on flights from North America, Canada and Latin America from May 2026, and on that fare advance seat reservation is not available for purchase, including for ANA Diamond Service and Platinum Service members. You choose a seat when online check-in opens, and not before.

Timing decides what you can do as much as the fare does. ANA’s published sequence for an international flight is set out below.

The Economy charges for the same kinds of seat are listed below, so the value of a free assignment is visible. ANA raised these charges for purchases made on or after 15 September 2026, and an older guide will quote the lower set.

Before 15 September 2026 the top band stood at $55.00 for an exit row and $25.00 for a window or aisle, so the exit-row charge rose by 40 per cent and the window or aisle charge by 56 per cent in a single step. Two people flying Tokyo to London and back in Economy and choosing a window or aisle on both sectors would now pay $156.00 for the privilege. A Premium Economy Value Plus or Full Flex fare includes it.

The change and refund columns above are the other reason the fare brand matters. A Basic fare cannot be changed or refunded at all, which turns an ordinary schedule problem into a total loss, so it is worth knowing your rights before you buy. The Wonderful Wanderings guide to flight cancellations covers what the airline owes you when the cancellation is theirs rather than yours.

ANA Premium Economy baggage allowance

The ANA Premium Economy baggage allowance is a piece allowance with a weight cap on each piece, and ANA states the two separately because they answer different questions. The number of pieces comes from your fare. The weight limit comes from your cabin.

Premium Economy does not buy you heavier bags. It buys you more of them, and it buys you a Priority tag: ANA attaches one at the bag drop, and those bags come off the belt after the First Class priority bags.

Read the number off your e-ticket rather than off a general table. ANA’s own wording is that the free baggage allowance written on the flight ticket is the one that applies, and there are two ordinary ways for a general table to be wrong for you. Baggage rules for international flights govern the Japan domestic sectors inside an international itinerary, and if any leg is operated by another airline, that airline’s rules can apply instead.

Two things add allowance on top. ANA Mileage Club Premium Members can check 1 extra piece, or up to 20 kg above the allowance for their cabin, and members can spend miles on extra bags. Beyond that ANA sells Pre-Paid Extra Baggage on its website, and the price is the ordinary excess-piece charge rather than a discount: $100 (about €87, £75) for a sector inside one region and €150 ($200, about £129) for a sector that crosses regions. It covers 1 extra piece only, 2 or more are paid for at the airport counter, and itineraries containing United States or Canadian cities are not eligible at all, which rules the service out on most of ANA’s North America network.

The ANA Premium Economy menu

The ANA Premium Economy menu is the Economy meal plus a separate list of extras, and ANA publishes the real menu for your route rather than describing it in general terms. On the dining page you choose the class, the departure airport, the arrival airport and the month, and ANA returns a meal menu PDF and a drink menu PDF for that flight. The menus are refreshed at the end of February, May, August and November, so the PDF you open two months before departure is usually the one you will be served.

What Premium Economy adds to the Economy service is a short, fixed list: sparkling wine, red and white wine and black tea to drink, and a petit four, ochazuke nori, which is a Japanese rice soup with seaweed, and cup noodles as snacks between services. ANA offers these on routes to and from Narita and Haneda where Premium Economy is sold, and stock is limited on any given flight.

The shape of the service is published too, and it tells you when to expect food. ANA lists 6 service patterns, and the arrow marks the order of service.

1. Lunch or dinner. A single main service, usually after take-off.
2. Lunch or dinner, then a snack before arrival. The long-haul default on daytime departures.
3. Breakfast, then a snack before arrival. Morning departures.
4. A snack after take-off, then breakfast. The overnight pattern, with the main meal before landing.
5. A snack after take-off, then a snack, then breakfast. The same idea on a longer overnight sector.
6. A snack after take-off, then lunch or dinner, then a snack. The main meal lands roughly 8 hours after take-off.

Three named items travel with the cabin whatever the route. ANA serves its own bread on flights leaving Haneda and Narita, developed by ANA pastry chef Noriaki Aida to hold a chewy texture at altitude. The vegan cup ramen is supervised by T’s Restaurant and uses non-fried noodles. The rice crackers, served as otsumami, are vegan, halal and free of the 28 major allergens designated by Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, which makes them the one snack on board that almost anyone can eat.

Special meals for dietary, medical or religious reasons have to be requested in advance, and ANA says most of them need notice before the day. On flights leaving Japan, Premium Economy passengers can also pre-order ANA’s paid exclusive dining, which is a separate meal bought ahead of the flight rather than an upgrade to the standard tray.

Dinner was Japanese-style chicken with rice and vegetables, followed by a small dessert and fruit. The main dish was the one listed on the menu card, and the rest of the tray was close to the description.

Service in the Premium Economy cabin

Service in the ANA Premium Economy cabin is built around a short list of things handed out or fetched on request rather than around a formal sequence. Pillows and blankets are carried on every route. Slippers, a shoe horn and a bag are available on every route if you ask a cabin attendant.

The amenity kit is also on request rather than waiting on the seat, and it holds a toothbrush set, an eye mask, ear plugs and pocket tissues. A letter set of a postcard and a ballpoint pen is carried on every route in limited numbers. ANA runs its own blended aroma in the cabin and in the lounges, which is the small consistent detail people tend to remember about the airline. What to bring yourself, across any cabin, is covered in the Wonderful Wanderings long-haul flight essentials list.

A crew member remembered I had asked for green tea with dinner and brought another cup later without me requesting it. The attention was small, but more personal than a normal economy service.

ANA Premium Economy lounge access

ANA Premium Economy includes lounge access, which few airlines offer with this cabin. A Premium Economy ticket admits you to ANA lounges at Haneda, Narita, Kansai and Honolulu, and ANA’s own eligibility page sets one condition on it: Premium Economy passengers may enter only when boarding an ANA Group operated flight, so a codeshare number flown by a partner does not count. At Kansai the room is the shared KIX Lounge Kansai rather than an ANA-branded lounge.

At every other airport on the network ANA uses contract lounges and sets eligibility per airport, so check ANA’s own list of airport lounges for your departure point rather than assuming the rule travels with you. On international routes a child under 2 is not counted as a companion, while a child of 2 or over is. Because lounge access is the line that most often separates one carrier’s Premium Economy from another’s, it is also the fastest way to compare the field, and the Wonderful Wanderings ranked premium economy airlines table sets that comparison out row by row.

What ANA Premium Economy costs

ANA Premium Economy costs between roughly twice and roughly five times the Economy fare on the same aircraft and the same dates, and the multiple depends far more on the route than on the cabin. Out of Los Angeles on 18 September 2026, the gap ran from €905 ($1,040, £780) in Economy to €1,870 ($2,147, £1,605) in Premium Economy. The table below is a single Kayak search run that day for ANA nonstop round trips departing 10 November 2026 and returning 20 November 2026, with the Economy fare for the identical routing beside it.

Dollar figures are the search results as displayed. Euro and sterling figures are converted at the mid-market rate on 18 September 2026 and are approximate.

San Francisco is the row that makes the point. Same airline, same cabin, same dates, one airport further up the California coast, and the multiple nearly triples. Haneda slots are limited and the Premium Economy cabin is small, so when the cheap fare buckets on one departure sell out there is nothing behind them, while Los Angeles still had a $2,147 fare on the same day. Check Los Angeles as well as the Bay Area before you write the cabin off as unaffordable, because the same seat on the same dates can cost less than a third as much one airport away.

Two structural facts survive any search. ANA sells Premium Economy as its own booking class with its own fare families rather than as a fixed upgrade fee on an Economy ticket, so no single number is useful. And the fare brand matters as much as the headline price, because a Premium Economy Basic fare cannot be changed, refunded or seated in advance, while Full Flex can be changed and refunded for nothing.

Run your own dates before you decide. Compare live ANA Premium Economy fares, then read the fare conditions on ana.co.jp for the exact ticket before you pay.

Is ANA Premium Economy worth it?

ANA Premium Economy is worth it when the lounge, the second checked bag and the free seat assignment are things you would otherwise pay for, and it stops being worth it the moment the fare crosses about three times the Economy price on your route. The threshold is arithmetic rather than a rule of thumb. At roughly twice the Economy fare you are buying an inch and a half of extra width, 2 to 4 inches of extra pitch, a legrest, a lounge, a bag and a seat you chose. At five times the Economy fare, which is where San Francisco to Haneda sat on 18 September 2026, you are close to a discounted Business Class fare on another Star Alliance carrier.

It is worth paying for when your flight carries the newer seat. The 206-seat 787-9 at 40 inches (101 cm) of pitch with 9 inches (23 cm) of recline and Bluetooth audio, and the A380, 787-10 and new 777-300ER with the 15.6-inch screen and the swivel table, are a different experience from the 10.6-inch screen and the second-row footrest on the older layouts. Check which one your flight number carries before you decide. The step above this cabin is a separate calculation again, set out in premium economy versus business class.

It is not worth paying for if you sleep through anything, if you are on a Basic fare that strips out the seat assignment and the second bag, or if your itinerary is short enough that the lounge is the only part you will use. It is also not worth it when you are connecting through an airport where ANA has no lounge of its own, because the ground half of the value disappears and you are paying for the seat alone.

ANA Premium Economy is worth paying for again on a long overnight sector, because the seat made resting easier without Business Class pricing. Anyone who stays awake for most of the flight and already finds ANA economy comfortable has less reason to upgrade.

Two rival cabins are worth pricing on the same dates before you commit. On Japan routes the direct competitor is Japan Airlines Premium Economy, which sells against ANA out of the same two Tokyo airports. On the wider Europe to Asia map the closest equivalent is Cathay Pacific Premium Economy, another Asian carrier running a comparable seat at a comparable fare.

WonderfulWanderings Pro Tips

The 5 tips below come from checking ANA’s own seat maps, fare tables and service pages on 18 September 2026, and each one is specific to this cabin rather than to flying in general.

1. Open the seat map for your flight number, not for the aircraft type. ANA flies Premium Economy on 8 different cabin layouts, and one of the two Boeing 787-8 layouts has no Premium Economy cabin at all. The 787-9 alone comes in 3 layouts, with 14, 21 and 21 seats and two different seat pitches.
2. Skip the bulkhead row on the older seat. On the 212-seat 777-300ER, the 246- and 215-seat 787-9 and the 184-seat 787-8, ANA’s own seat page says the footrest starts in the second row, so row 25 or row 15 is the one row in the cabin without one. On the 787-10 the bulkhead is worse again, with a galley in front of row 15 and lavatories in front of 15A, 15C, 15H and 15K.
3. Refuse a Premium Economy Basic fare if you care where you sit. On flights from North America, Canada and Latin America, ANA’s Basic fare gives you 1 checked bag instead of 2, no changes, no refund and no advance seat reservation at any price, not even for Diamond Service and Platinum Service members. You get whatever is left when online check-in opens 24 hours out.
4. Pair a Bluetooth transmitter with the seat jack before you board. Only the 206-seat 787-9 has Bluetooth audio built in, and every other ANA Premium Economy layout uses a wired 3.5 mm jack, so your own headphones need an adapter such as the Twelve South AirFly SE. Pair it at the gate rather than at 35,000 feet, when the cabin is full and the lights are down.
5. Buy a Japan eSIM before you fly, because the free Wi-Fi in this cabin is text only. ANA gives Premium Economy passengers complimentary text messaging on the A380, 787 and 777, while web browsing is a paid plan at $6.95 for 30 minutes, $16.95 for 3 hours or $21.95 for the flight, and ANA caps large downloads and asks passengers not to make voice or video calls. An Airalo eSIM installs before you leave and switches on the moment you land at Haneda or Narita, which is when you need the data.

About the author. This guide is written and maintained by the Wonderful Wanderings editorial team. Wonderful Wanderings was founded in 2012 by Sofie Couwenbergh, and the first-hand notes in this post come from her own 2 ANA Premium Economy flights between Tokyo and London. The team covers long-haul flying for independent travellers, including the cabins, seat maps, lounges and fares worth knowing about before you book, and updates this page when ANA changes its seats, fees and rules.