Airplane bathrooms are not accessible to many of us with disabilities. If we have to fly, we must think carefully about how to manage a flight without needing to use one.
We may choose an itinerary with shorter, more frequent legs so that we can use the airport facilities, even though it is much more inconvenient for our travel schedule. We might have to use adult diapers during the flight even though we wouldn’t normally need them. Or perhaps we purposefully dehydrate ourselves. None of these are good solutions.
Effective October 23, 2023, the Department of Transportation’s Air Carrier Access Act has an added requirement that all new single-aisle planes must have lavatories large enough so that a person with a disability plus an attendant can get into and move around within them.
This should make all of us more comfortable on long flights.
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