Originally Posted by
WHBM
It's similar to seat rows in the cabin without windows.
Aircraft manufacturers lay the aircraft out with windows where they think reasonable. Deleted windows are generally due to cable ducts etc passing behind the wall.
Except some which are due to reinforcement of fuselage against engine explosions.
Windows suck. There really were people sucked out of a DC-10 when an engine exploded and broke a window.
Originally Posted by
WHBM
Airlines then all do their own thing with interiors, which are also changed round over time, and for some the layouts end up with windows alongside where they wish to put toilets. It really is quite a way down the list of priorities, if there is a window there so be it.
Time was that operators would delete windows with metal blanking plates known as "plugs" where they were not required, they were usually quite obvious under the paint scheme. As aircraft structures have got more sophisticated this approach has lost favour.
What are the toilet cell walls, door and the toilet mechanism supposed to do when the plane decompresses through a window in the toilet?