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Ended using rear ones on the return flights. Much better than the front. I could actually stand and not hit my head.
737 for trans Atlantic Flights
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Yeah I saw your other comment. I'm 6'7" and I have also sampled a front lav on the 737 last November on Ryanair flying RAK-MAD, I could barely shut the lav door. (But otherwise it was my best flight on Ryanair, the "every single amenity" package was only $220USD/pp including early boarding, a checked bag, and a front seat with humane legroom, it was about half the price of the other airlines flying this route)
The A32x front lav on Spirit and Frontier is not much, if any, better. The seat pitch is so small that I have to pay the extra for a front seat, so I end up using the tiny front lav. Probably not that many companies that make certified airplane lavatories in the first place and pretty much everyone is trying to maximize seat count these days.
On Delta's A321ceo that they fly to AUS, it has a mid cabin lav, which is what I use on the AUS-ATL route when flying them as I'm usually angling for an exit row on DL.
Besides the lav question, I thought some more about this thread.
Any narrowbody is not ideal for a long flight.
But I'd rather have a brand new narrowbody than a 30 year old 777 (I'm looking at you, UA/AA). I mean, there's nothing wrong with a well maintained older plane. But we have suffered some significant delays in recent years due to mechanical issues, my wife last summer had a 30+ hour delay on AA out of GRU, for example, air turnback on her 777 and then not able to get her on a different flight.
The prior gen widebodoes from the 80s/90s/00s are also louder, both the Boeing (767/777/747-400) and Airbus offerings (A330/A340). With the exception of the 2016 build A333 I was on last November with IB, it was really quiet. Don't know if updating insulation was an in-production change, but it sure seemed like it compared to DL's ex-NW A330s.
But all that said, I'm not going to sit here and pretend like we're not price conscious travelers, we are. Usually the lowest cost wins out regardless.