Could you fit in this airplane bathroom?

[Eugene]

Source: Washington Post

Could you fit in this airplane bathroom?

By Lori Aratani Nov. 17, 2018

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Flying has become a game of inches, with airlines trying to squeeze as many passengers as possible on planes. They have made seats smaller, shrunk legroom and now, as Santos and Arganda discovered on a recent cross-country flight, made the bathrooms so small an average-size person feels squeezed.

On some of the newer planes flown by American, Delta and United airlines, the bathrooms in coach are just 24 inches wide. For comparison, that’s roughly the width of the average dishwasher or the size of Kim Kardashian’s waist.

By comparison, the average porta-potty is roughly 34 inches wide. Same with the stalls in the women’s restrooms at Reagan National Airport.

According to the manufacturer, the new-style bathrooms free up enough space to fit six more passengers onboard.

Delta was the first to introduce the smaller bathrooms in 2014, but the shift gained more attention late last year when American began using new jets equipped with the tiny lavatories. United debuted theirs in June.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/local/airplane-bathrooms/

[hlthe2b]

1. what, exactly is the plan for their larger passengers? Chamberpots? Airline-issued diapers?

Geebus...

[RainCaster]

2. A more absorbent seat cushion

[appalachiablue]

3. Way unreasonable, esp. for large Americans. Obvious as hell

[PoliticAverse]

4. I wonder when the first lawsuit will be filed.

Ground-based lavatories these days are huge in order to be handicapped accessible.

[LisaM]

5. I've been in those tiny bathrooms. They're terrible.

And I am an average sized person, also, on the short side. I can't imagine if I was 6'2" or something.

[Siwsan]

6. I dreaded the regular size ones, and I'm relatively slender

I just pulled out a tape measure to get a good idea of just how small that is - and damn. How does one, errr, re-arrange garments to accomplish what needs to be done?

Fortunately, the flights I take now are generally around 2 hours, so I hit the loo just before I board.

[MontanaMama]

7. Most airline bathrooms

are covered in urine 20 minutes into the flight. Imagine what it will be like in these new bathrooms? Yuck.

[3Hotdogs]

8. A.D.A. suit?

[3catwoman3]

9. So much for the...

...Mile High Club.

I could never understand the appeal of that particular venue for that particular activity.

[footsinmymouths]

10. Ugh

At what point do they start shrink wrapping us and loading us into tubes for our flights?