Originally Posted by
RaflW
Last Oct. I was in 20B on a 787-10 and was not bothered by the lav. There's a curtain, and if I recall correctly, the lav door opens forward, not on the main aisle. I don't really remember much in terms of noise -- maybe one could hear the vacuum flush briefly, clearly it wasn't bothersome enough to stick as a memory. Most of the 10 or so PE people on our aisle used the Polaris lav, FAs never said a word about it, but people were discrete and never formed a line.
Leg room was good, and I'm 6'2" and like to cross my legs so was glad to be in that seat since there's no reclined seatback in the way.
shouldn't be an issue for O using the rear J lavs on the 787-10. The J pax to lav ratio would be 11 to 1 if they were only for J, which is out of whack compared to every other plane. The ratio is more like 14 or 15 to 1 (777-200 it is nearly 17 to 1). Thus, shared lavs make sense as that puts the pax to lav ration closer to the normal 15 to 1
It really only becomes an issue on the 767-400 where the J pax to lav ratio is already 17. That plane needed a front lav only for Polaris in the worst way during the retrofit