Originally Posted by
drvannostren
Incorrect. 737s, the backbone of many airlines, still use blue juice. They might not use as much as before, but they still use it. I'm a ground handler, just serviced a 737 lav 20 minutes ago.
The problem is people flushing the wrong stuff, and/or many other things including lavs being serviced incorrectly. 757/767s are a pain in the ... to service and have multiple lavs, inexperienced lav guys often miss one. Or people who don't deal with these aircrafts that often will easily miss one. But that usually doesn't result in ALL the lavs failing.
I agree the issue is people flushing all kinds of stuff.
are you referring to blue juice down in the tank? Or blue juice being swirled in the loo to make stuff go down? The latter, the vast vast majority of AA's 737s do are vacuum flush, so the lav user does not ever see any blue juice. The former (in the tank), sure.