Flight attendants complained that the sinks were so small they could wash only one hand at a timeIn the fierce fight to offer cheap flights to more of the travelling public, American Airlines has trimmed the space between rows and shrunk its lavatory cubicles to pack in more seats. Executives face suggestions that they have gone too far in their attempt to keep hold of customers. Some passengers, in fact, were said to be struggling to extricate themselves from the loos. Complaints that the cubicles were trapping unsuspecting travellers were first raised by Zach Honig, an editor for the website The Points Guy, who crammed into one of the airline’s new Boeing 737 MAX planes for a flight from New York to Miami. Mr Honig said the distance between the seats, which had been trimmed to 30 inches, meant that he had…

Source: The Times May 25, 2018 23:02 UTC