Originally Posted by ContinentalFan
TWA Fan 1, thanks for the statistics on the different lavatories. I didn't realize that there was such a wide discrepancy on one configuration of the B737-800. I am lucky that I don't need to visit the lavatory during most flights.
I'm with you. But if you're ever unlucky enough to sit in an aisle seat in the aft section of one of these 738's, then the issue is not whether you need to visit the facilities, it's the continuous line of your fellow passengers waiting for one of the two lavatories.
You end up with someone's elbow rubbing against your face, or, worse yet, someone's posterior.
Don't get me wrong, a third lavatory would not miraculously make this queue vanish, but there would be fewer pax/lav and the line in the rear would be shorter as about one third of the pax would choose the mid-cabin lav.