With airplane bathrooms inaccessible to most people with disabilities, those who use wheelchairs have a necessary pre-flight routine: Dehydrate and hope for the best.

Passengers in wheelchairs can’t use most airplane washrooms. That could change::With airplane bathrooms inaccessible to most people with disabilities, those who use wheelchairs have a necessary pre-flight routine: Dehydrate and hope for the best.

  • CmdrShepard@lemmy.oneEnglish
    419·
    1 year ago

    Wheelchairs can’t be used on planes either so it makes sense that the airplane bathrooms aren’t wheelchair accessible. As a 6’3" man, I also cannot use airplane bathrooms as they were designed for 90lb 5’1" individuals.

    • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.worldEnglish
      225·
      1 year ago

      Wheelchairs can’t be used on planes either so it makes sense that the airplane bathrooms aren’t wheelchair accessible

      Are you trying to say that people who need wheelchairs are never on airplanes?

      Nothing in your comment makes sense.

      For example, a friend of mine gets a special wheelchar upon boarding the plane. That special wheelchair is small enough so that it can be used inside the airplane. His normal wheelchair gets loaded as cargo then.

    • SuperJetShoes@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      Mate, I’m 189cm (6’2.4) and manage perfectly well in a 737 bathroom whichever function I need to perform, so I’m not sure what the issue is. Your girth maybe?

      • CmdrShepard@lemmy.oneEnglish
        12·
        1 year ago

        I’m not girthy just unable to stand up in an airplane bathroom without hunching over to fit the curve of the fuselage.