Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe FORT WORTH, Texas, Feb. 28 (UPI) -- American Airlines, based in Fort Worth, Texas, announced it is opening its first class toilets for passengers in all areas of the plane to use. The airline said it is flushing rules instituted in 2003 that made the first class lavatories off limits to coach passengers on all flights, the Fort Worth Star Telegram reported Wednesday. Advertisement "It was difficult to explain to customers sitting in the forward section of coach why they couldn't walk a few feet away and use the lavatory," airline spokesman Tim Wagner said. American's new policy, which takes effect Thursday, applies to all domestic flights and to international flights leaving the U.S. under Transportation Security Administration regulations. However, the change does not apply to incoming international flights. The change makes sense from a mathematical perspective: a Boeing 757 plane has two lavatories for the first class section, which seats 22 passengers, and the same number of toilets in the coach section, which seats 160.
