While bathrooms in premium cabins of aircraft are getting upgrades to include self flushing mechanisms, room for toiletries and enough space to actually have a bench to sit down and give you enough room to change your clothes in...the bathrooms in the back of the plane are getting smaller and smaller.
An article published this week in the Wall Street Journal highlighted the recent battle between the different companies who make airline toilets, which seems like a very lucrative business, are fighting to flush the competition (sorry, had to do it...) with smaller and smaller bathrooms to help airlines fit in more and more seats.
The most recent change was on the new series of 737s that will be coming out soon that will feature a bathroom that is slightly smaller than 3 feet by 3 feet. The smaller toilet and better use of space behind the sink for storage will give airlines the ability to add a few more seats. Delta is taking advantage of this and putting on four more seats to bring their total to 180 passengers on that aircraft.
So as airlines figure out how to fill those planes to the brim and fly smaller and smaller equipment on longer routes that bathroom is getting even smaller. But just be thankful...as the author of the Journal article reminds us...the FAA doesn't actually require an airline to have a restroom on the plane...so lets just be thankful they have one!
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