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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: Kickass Conservative

or could the real purpose of this be to deter people from attempting to join the Mile High Club?


41 posted on 06/11/2015 11:51:15 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: King Moonracer

Hey, We HAD a decent-sized toilet on the B-52. Trust me, I spent enough hours in them.. . .


42 posted on 06/11/2015 11:53:49 AM PDT by Salgak (Peace Through Superior Firepower. . . .)
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To: taxcontrol

I am with you. The seats are tiny as it is. Have they thought of double decker seats? Bunks?


43 posted on 06/11/2015 12:00:04 PM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: lbryce

I avoid flying like it’s kryptonite. Between the obnoxious TSA security theater and the slave ship-inspired seating on modern airliners, I only do it if my employer pays for the ticket, and it’s someplace they want me to go (e.g. a conference).


44 posted on 06/11/2015 12:23:53 PM PDT by Bluewater2015 (There are no coincidences)
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To: lbryce

Where there are people there is poop. If they want people they have to take care of the poop. One reason why I avoid New York City.

Lesson in economics: Many years ago there were pay toilets. 5 cents got you into the place where you sit down and helped pay for the upkeep. Then liberals passed laws to make pay toilets illegal. Now there are not enough public toilets.


45 posted on 06/11/2015 12:25:15 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: taxcontrol
And these standards should be sized around a 6’ 2” 220 lbs male

Exactly what I am. I guess they'll just put a hole in the bulkhead. It'll be better than the tiny bathrooms they have now.

46 posted on 06/11/2015 12:27:49 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (To win the country back, we need to be as mean as the libs say we are.)
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To: lbryce
Miserable at the gate being cavity searched, and now miserable on the plane.

They should make a Fat ass section..

47 posted on 06/11/2015 12:34:12 PM PDT by MaxMax (Call the local GOP and ask how you can support CRUZ for POTUS,)
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To: smokingfrog
Boing Aircraft Corp
Making Smaller Seats For Wider Bodies

What’s next? Pay toilets?

Thank you for a wonderful idea. We are implementing it immediately. Do you have a suggestion for a stronger, much stronger deodorizing aerosol?

48 posted on 06/11/2015 12:37:34 PM PDT by righttackle44 (Take scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning.)
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To: righttackle44
Do you have a suggestion for a stronger, much stronger deodorizing aerosol?

Make sure the airplane bathroom has a window you can open!

49 posted on 06/11/2015 12:43:05 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: central_va
Makes it harder to join the mile high club

It'd be one at a time until they made the restrooms even too small for that.

Back in the 70s, Russian passenger planes were nothing but converted WWII cargo planes with seats. Not a single bolt or screw or rivet had been tightened since the war. The boarding tunnels hadn't found their way to Russia so you had to walk half a mile to the plane and just like tanks, you boarded up the back. Then you'd sit for an hour until someone's poor 80 year old grandma would drive up in a truck, climb on the wing and fuel it up. No gauges so she'd have to peek in to see if there was enough fuel (where's that rosary!). The seats were all broken so that you'd hope someone with long legs was behind you to hold your seat back up. They hadn't figured out to tack the carpet down the aisle so it was constantly rolled up. Snacks were always a Dixie cup of mineral water and a lemon drop. Barf bags didn't exist so passengers had to bring their own newspapers. I never had the courage to unbuckle and go back to the restroom so crossed my knees until we landed. I never saw anyone else brave enough either so took that as a sign. Well, the very last plane ride on the way back to Moscow to catch the flight home (you don't know what a welcome sight that blue circle on Pan Am was) I HAD to go so said a prayer and stumbled back to the restroom terrified of what I'd find. Ahhh, the heavens parted and angels sang! The restroom took up half the back of the plane with a lounge with a 1940-50s era couch and a couple of upholstered chairs and end tables. The toilet area was behind another door and was spacious. I spent the rest of the flight back there and still no one ever ventured in.

50 posted on 06/11/2015 12:53:07 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: lbryce

Boeing is reacting to what the airlines want. I can’t criticize them.

I’m just a bit surprised the airlines haven’t started selling vouchers for in-air restroom access, with swipe access control at a higher rate.


51 posted on 06/11/2015 12:55:15 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus-)
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To: Moonman62
The new Boeing seating chart.

LOL! And the TSA is going to mandate the shackle's specifications.

52 posted on 06/11/2015 12:56:40 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: lbryce

I liked the airbus 340 we took to Munich. They had bathrooms downstairs in the cargo hold. Almost full sized.


53 posted on 06/11/2015 1:05:39 PM PDT by sharkhawk (Here come the Hawks, the mighty Black Hawks)
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To: lbryce

Anyone remember the episode where Jed Clampett bought an airline and Jethro replaced the seats with benches?

Don’t be surprised if...


54 posted on 06/11/2015 1:11:45 PM PDT by CodeJockey
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To: lbryce

55 posted on 06/11/2015 1:19:21 PM PDT by mabarker1 (congress, The Opposite of Progress.)
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To: Kickass Conservative

Can’t we go back to the 707?

In retrospect, it seems to be light-years ahead of the junk we have now....


56 posted on 06/11/2015 1:22:24 PM PDT by __rvx86 (Ted Cruz: Proving that conservative populism is a winning strategy. GO CRUZ!)
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To: winner3000

I just feel soooooo sorry for the airlines. More fees is clearly what thy are needing!


57 posted on 06/11/2015 1:24:57 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Moonman62
I don't blame Boeing. They are really doing what their customers want.

The simple truth is that when people book flights, they buy the cheapest fare going where they want to go when they want to go. In that world, the only incentive is for the airlines to cram more people onto each plane and add fees. I was just on American, and they show a low fare, but then you discover that it's only available for middle seats. Aisle or window seats were "premium" and charged more. If you want to sit with your spouse, you had to cough up the money.

58 posted on 06/11/2015 1:33:28 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("The rat always knows when he's in with weasels."--Tom Waits)
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To: winner3000

Wait a minute,wait a minute!If Boeing is going to design the diapers than the fee will have to be at least double or triple say more in the $100.00 to $150.00 dollar range. There will bound to be ‘accidents’ in early models caused by design and material flaws, so I say it will take them at least three years to come up with a usable model. Then there will be the inevitable design up grades which will lead to cost increases.

Of I almost forgot if you should have to us the diaper there will be Toxic disposal fee and Carbon offsets imposed by the EPA.


59 posted on 06/11/2015 1:33:32 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: wastoute

Auschwitz had more space between people.


60 posted on 06/11/2015 1:35:19 PM PDT by Yaelle ("You're gonna fly away, Glad you're going my way... I love it when we're Cruzin together")
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