Article: The Benefits of Sitting at the Back of the Plane

[Mr Bill]

If you are on a plane where Y starts in row 4 (a 737) the flight time is not usually long enough to need to use the toilet.

When you gotta go......you gotta go

 

[L2.]

If you are on a plane where Y starts in row 4 (a 737) the flight time is not usually long enough to need to use the toilet.

Perth residents would most likely disagree with that!

 

[flyingfan]

I’ve heard UMs and prisoners are to be found at the back… although the couple of times I ended up there, due to a last minute flight change, I haven’t sat near either!

 

[Mr Bill]

Well I guess we are all prisoners from doors close to doors open

 

[Lynda2475]

Perth residents would most likely disagree with that!

Why PER-SYD only just over 5 hours? I stand by my point.

 

[Mr Bill]

Why PER-SYD only just over 5 hours? I stand by my point.

Please have some sympathy for those of us who are not so endowed with your "continency".

 

[VPS]

Please have some sympathy for those of us who are not so endowed with your "continency".

or have other medical issues that require access to the toilet

 

[Lynda2475]

If you want to be close to the toilets sit at the back, im very happy to be seated well away from them given wont be using them on anything under 10 hours, and at worst once on a longer flight.

It's not just the smells from the toilets but the constant stream of chatty passengers standing over you waiting in line, often bumping your armrest, noise/light from doors opening and closing.

If boarding from both doors, having a seat in back half also means you need to walk out into weather and climb up stairs to rear door instead of via the aerobridge at front.

Plus you are last to be served meals almost guaranteeing they will have run out of your preferred option by the time they get to you; and on short flights have the least time to eat that meal.

Being at the back is all downside and no upside imo.

 

[Forg]

Why PER-SYD only just over 5 hours? I stand by my point.

You’re obviously just not drinking enough!

 

[p--and--t]

We are always left in no doubt as to one poster’s opinion whether you want it or not.

 

[VPS]

We are always left in no doubt as to one poster’s opinion whether you want it or not.

Black and white no grey

 

[Mr Bill]

Perhaps it's time for this thread to be "flushed"... momentarily?...provided the Q is not too long !!!

 

[VPS]

FYI

'I don't want to buy a £4 coffee just so I can use the loo'

Should cafés let people who don't buy anything use their toilets?

www.bbc.com

 

[fletty]

FYI

'I don't want to buy a £4 coffee just so I can use the loo'

Should cafés let people who don't buy anything use their toilets?

www.bbc.com

Don't give them ideas.. "Rear lavatories can only be used after a purchase from the in-flight menu"

 

[DC3]

'I don't want to buy a £4 coffee just so I can use the loo'

Should cafés let people who don't buy anything use their toilets?

www.bbc.com

 

[Lynda2475]

Absolutely nothing wrong with a policy of paid customer only usage of facilities at a cafe or restaurant.

If you haven't made a purchase then you need to go and find an actual public toilet.

There is a cost for the cafe/restaurant to clean facilities only an entitled brat would expect to use private facilities for free.

 

[foften]

A lot of people agree with you on this … but on the wide-bodies I’ve noticed, Row 1 is also close to the toilets … does that bother you?
I mostly ask because that hasn’t occurred to me previously, yet I’ve always accepted it as an issue up the back. Except short-haul, short-haul it makes no difference (I suspect most people avoid the onboard loo if possible like I do).

Yeah, we don’t select seats near the toilets. We head a few rows away in both directions.