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Boeing Shrinks Toilet Area to Add 14 More Seats
AOL News ^ | June 10,2015 | AOL News

Posted on 06/11/2015 10:38:50 AM PDT by lbryce

Boeing just announced plans to make their bathrooms smaller so they can fit more seats on the plane! So if you're claustrophobic, you might want to hold it. Boeing is shrinking the toilet area on the 777-300ER models to make them more marketable to airlines who will want extra seats on the plane, but passengers, would probably rather the extra leg room.

Boeing says they'll be able to cram 14 extra seats on the triple seven with the tiny toilet model. It's all part of a plan to make the planes lighter. Another way Boeing will lighten the plane by 12-hundred pounds is to restructure the overhead storage bin area.

The new design with mini toilets will be shown at the Paris Air Show later this month, and the upgrades should be ready next year in time for the first deliveries of the new triple sevens.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Travel
KEYWORDS: aerospace; boeing; dwarftoilets; inhumane; smallertoilets
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To: Kartographer

Depends!


21 posted on 06/11/2015 11:02:15 AM PDT by mfish13 (Elections have Consequences.)
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To: Maceman

Why not just pass a bucket and a roll up and down the isle? ;-)


22 posted on 06/11/2015 11:04:57 AM PDT by Average Al
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To: lbryce

American airlines are absolutely bent upon making air travel so unpleasant that people will stop flying coach class. I just flew in from New York and it was an unpleasant 5 1/2 hours. I estimate about 18 inches separated my chest from the back of the seat in front.


23 posted on 06/11/2015 11:07:12 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Probably more like union rules or something.
We used a diaper genie for a while, but then figured out that walmart bags would work just as well with the right technique.

24 posted on 06/11/2015 11:09:50 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: lbryce

The new Boeing seating chart.

I don't blame Boeing. They are really doing what their customers want. The airlines want to treat people the way most governments do these days.

25 posted on 06/11/2015 11:10:14 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: NormsRevenge

The napper=crapper!!


26 posted on 06/11/2015 11:11:16 AM PDT by RIghtwardHo
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To: Kartographer

(Just get rid of the toilets and hand out diapers. They would be free at first then eventually the airlines will have a $50.00 diaper fee for each diaper. They will of course work with the TSA to ban you from bringing your own diaper because it might be a WMD.)

That’s good “out of the toilet-box” thinking! You have good potential for a Boeing executive! LOL!


27 posted on 06/11/2015 11:16:06 AM PDT by winner3000
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To: lbryce

“They finally got him off the seat but I’m sure he had some heck of a ring around his supersized rear end.”

As well as a lawsuit.


28 posted on 06/11/2015 11:20:47 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Liawatha, because we need to beat a real commie, not a criminal posing as one.)
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To: lbryce

I’m glad I fly much less these days.

I’m 6’ 3.5” and can’t fit, leg room wise. So I have to buy the economy plus option.

Unfortunately, Southwest does not offer this.


29 posted on 06/11/2015 11:22:20 AM PDT by cicero2k
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To: NormsRevenge

Hand out diapers while boarding. Anyone leaving their seat is a terrorist anyway.


30 posted on 06/11/2015 11:27:43 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: lbryce
Then with the smaller bathrooms it's going to be problematic dealing with the new enrolees in the Mile High club, which by the way is now a crime if you're caught in the bathroom with more than one person attempting the nasty.

Unless you are flying the plane and without an autopilot it does not count!!!

31 posted on 06/11/2015 11:29:58 AM PDT by cpdiii (DECKHAND, ROUGHNECK, GEOLOGIST, PILOT, PHARMACIST, LIBERTARIAN The Constitution is worth dying for.)
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To: Kartographer

I got the FULL treatment by the TSA my last time out of CLT, as they had detected “explosive” residue about my carry-on bags and/or body. It only occurred to me later that my last stop before the airport had been an SC horse farm.

In any case, as I had plenty of time before my flight, I didn’t mind it so much except to be asked if I was a “gun advocate”, to which I replied, “Yes, I’m a Second Amendment advocate, but I don’t have any weapons with me.”

That one really shocked me a bit.


32 posted on 06/11/2015 11:30:48 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: lbryce
Boeing says they'll be able to cram 14 extra seats on the triple seven with the tiny toilet model. It's all part of a plan to make the planes lighter.

Adding 14 more people in the plane will make it lighter? Does that include the extra food and drinks for 14 more people? Does that include storage for the waste of 14 more people?

-PJ

33 posted on 06/11/2015 11:35:40 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: lbryce

Next time they design an airplane, just make it bigger to begin.


34 posted on 06/11/2015 11:41:41 AM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: lbryce

777’s are primarily used on long duration Flights.

It would be difficult avoiding having to use one of these new Small Lavatories unless you have a Bladder the size of Obama’s Ego.


35 posted on 06/11/2015 11:44:40 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Hillary, because it's time for a POTUS without a SCROTUS...)
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To: lbryce

Leave the seats and put in pay toilets at $30 a visit.


36 posted on 06/11/2015 11:46:11 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Kartographer

They already hand out diapers. They look like seat cushions.


37 posted on 06/11/2015 11:48:10 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: onedoug

Probably fertilizer residue. Easy to pick up on your shoes if you walk past a recently fertilized garden or visit a gardening center where they sell bags of fertilizer.


38 posted on 06/11/2015 11:48:19 AM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: Political Junkie Too

Shush! Stop making sense.


39 posted on 06/11/2015 11:49:29 AM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

“I estimate about 18 inches separated my chest from the back of the seat in front.”

Thats known as first class these days


40 posted on 06/11/2015 11:50:31 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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